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BY 
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BISHOP OF THE 
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AUTHOR OF 
"NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 




DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 



LESSON NUMBER 
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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 

III The Mist. 

IV The Flood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy, The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



DIVINE MAN AND CARNAL MAN 

3N the preparation of this course of lectures, 
it is assumed that the student is already 
familiar with the text book, "Nature's Way," 
by Wilbert LeRoy Cosper. It should be read 
carefully at least twice before the study of this 
lesson is begun and should be used for reference 
throughout the course. 

A thorough comprehension of Christian Philoso- 
phy is to be obtained only by a persevering and 
conscientious study of both "Nature's Way" and 
"Scientific Healing." 

The primary object of this series of lectures is to 
establish a complete distinction between the two 
types of man upon this plane — the carnal man and 
Divine Man. It must be clearly understood, how- 
ever, that we recognize but one creator. Surely we 
have never understood Christ's avowal: "Ye shall 
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," 
for today few persons are free — from sin, sickness, 
pain or want. The mere repetition of a Divine 
statement, or the knowledge of the promises of 
God, are not sufficient of themselves to bring the 
desired results. These results can be obtained only 
when we are actually cognizant of the exact mean- 
ing of the promises. Those who are carnal can 
neither understand nor attain the sacred promises 
which are made for the Divine Man. The differ- 
entiation between these two men can be readily 
recognized in the following quotations: 



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Gen. 6:1-4. "And it came to pass, when men 
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daugh- 
ters were born unto them. 

"That the sons of God saw the daughters of men 
that they were fair: and they took them wives of all 
which they chose. 

"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always 
strive with man, for that he also is flesh ; yet his days 
shall be an hundred and twenty years. 

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and 
also after that, when the sons of God came in to the 
daughters of men and they bare children to them, the 
same became mighty men which were of old, men of 
renown." 

The sons of God typify the Real Man and the 
daughters of men represent the carnal man. 

I Cor. 3:1-9. "And I, brethren, could not speak 
unto you as unto spiritual,* but as unto carnal,f even 
as unto babes in Christ. 

"I have fed you with milk and not with meat; for 
hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are 
ye able. 

"For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among 
you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not car- 
nal, and walk as man? 

"For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I 
am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 



♦Divine Mind reflects only upon the Spiritual Man and 
it produces Love, Truth, Health and Intelligence. This 
man is recognized as the Son of God, the perfect man, 
hereafter to be designated the Real Man. 

fThe term "carnal" means mortal. It applies to all 
error, sin, sickness or anything that is opposite from 
God, and the laws of Nature. 



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"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but minis- 
ters by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to 
every man? 

"I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave 
the increase. 

"So then neither is he that planteth anything; neither 
he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase. 

"Now he that planteth and he that watereth are 
one; and every man shall receive his own reward ac- 
cording to his own labor. 

"For we are laborers together with God; ye are 
God's husbandry, ye are God's building." 

Ephesians 2 : 1 9-22. "Now therefore ye are no 
more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with 
the saints, and of the household of God. 

"And are built upon the foundation of the apostles 
and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief 
cornerstone. 

"In whom all the building fitly framed together 
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord ; 

"In whom ye also are builded together for an habi- 
tation of God through the Spirit." 

This building is the body of the Real Man. 

I Cor. 3:10-23. "According to the grace of 
God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, 
I have laid the foundation and another buildeth there- 
on. But let every man take heed how he buildeth 
thereupon. 

"For other foundation can no man lay than that 
which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 

"Now if any build upon this foundation gold, silver, 
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: 



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"Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the 
day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by 
fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what 
sort it is. 

"If any man's work abide which he hath built there- 
upon, he shall receive a reward. 

"If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer 
loss ; but he himself shall be saved ; yet so as by fire. 

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and 
that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? 

"If any man defile the temple of God, him shall 
God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which 
temple ye are. 

"Let no man deceive himself. If any man among 
you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a 
fool that he may be wise. 

"For the wisdom of this Avorld is foolishness with 
God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own 
craftiness." 

"And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the 
wise, that they are vain. 

"Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things 
are yours; 

"Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the 
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to 
come ; all are yours : 

"And ye are Christ '5; and Christ is God's." 

Jesus represents the perfect flesh body of any in- 
dividual. Christ represents the complete manifesta- 



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tion in the flesh of the Divine Mind: that ALL 
INTELLIGENCE which created everything. If 
your body does not represent the Christ, it is un- 
doubtedly a manifestation of carnal man. It is 
this man only who can become sick or sinful. The 
advent of the Holy Ghost transforms the carnal 
man into the Real Man. 

St. John 1 4 :20-3 1 . "At that day ye shall know 
that I am in my Father, and ye in me and I in you. 

"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth 
them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me 
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and 
will manifest myself to him. 

"Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it 
that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto 
the world? 

"Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love 
me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love 
him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode 
with Him. 

"He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings ; and 
the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's 
which sent me. 

"These things have I spoken unto you, being yet 
present with you. 

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach 
you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, 
whatsoever I have said unto you. 

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; 
not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your 
heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

"Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, 
and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would 



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rejoice, because I said, I go unto my Father; for my 
Father is greater than I. 

"And now I have told you before it come to pass, 
that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 

"Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the 
prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 

"But that the world may know that I love the 
Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, 
even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." 

St. John 15:22-27. "If I had not come and 
spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they 
have no cloak for their sin. 

"He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 

"If I had not done among them the works which 
none other man did, they had not had sin; but now 
have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 

"But this cometh to pass, that the word might be 
fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me 
without a cause. 

"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send 
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, 
which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of 
me. 

St. John 16:7-16. "Nevertheless I tell you the 
truth; it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I 
go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; 
but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 

"And when he is come, he will reprove the world of 
sin and of righteousness, and of judgment ; 

"Of sin, because they believe not in me; 

"Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and 
ye see me no more; 



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"Of judgment, because the prince of this world is 
judged. 

44 1 have yet many things to say unto you, but ye 
cannot bear them now. 

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he 
will guide you into all truth ; for he shall not speak of 
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he 
speak ; and he will show you things to come. 

44 He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, 
and shall show it unto you. 

<4 A11 things that the Father hath are mine; therefore 
said I, that he shall take mine, and shall show it unto 
you. 

44 A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again 
a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the 
Father." 

The carnal man is unable to understand how 
this can be accomplished. It is the Real Man who 
can teach those who know not the truth and have 
not found "The Comforter." 

I Cor. 12:28-31. "And God hath set some in 
the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly 
teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, 
governments, diversities of tongue. 

"Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all 
teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 

"Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with 
tongues? Do all interpret? 

"But covet earnestly the best gifts; and yet show I 
unto you a more excellent way." 

These various gifts are to be attained by those 
who are qualified by spiritual growth. These can 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

minister to others who are unable to receive the 
Divine Thought for themselves. The attribute that 
is most necessary to the acquirement of any of 
these gifts is susceptibility to Thought. 

James 1 :5-7. "If any of you lack wisdom, let 
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and 
upbraideth not ; and it shall be given him. 

"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For 
he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with 
the wind and tossed. 

"For let not that man think that he shall receive 
anything of the Lord." 

The Real Man has the true knowledge and does 
not waver. He has been resurrected from the death 
of carnal belief. 

Rev. 20:6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath 
part in the first resurrection; on such the second death 
hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of 
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." 

The second death can not change the Real 
Man, the man who has been resurrected. The 
highest aim of the Christian Philosophical Institute 
is to resurrect its followers into a newness of life. 

Rev. 20: 1 2-1 5. "And I saw the dead, small and 
great stand before God; and the books were opened; 
and another book was opened, which is the book of 
life; and the dead were judged out of those things 
which were written in the books, according to their 
works. 

"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; 
and death and hell delivered up the dead which were 
in them; and they were judged, every man according 
to their works. 

"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 
This is the second death. 



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"And whosoever were not found written in the book 
of life were cast into the lake of fire." 

Paul tells us "The last enemy that shall be de- 
stroyed is death." We cannot destroy death by 
dying. Again Paul said: "O death, where is thy 
sting; O, grave where is thy victory?" Can a vic- 
tory over death be gained by dying? To be resur- 
rected from the first death one must be transformed 
from the carnal to the Divine Man while in the 
flesh. The first step toward the accomplishment 
of this change is the individual's realization and 
acknowledgment of the fact that in reality he is 
dead — that is, that he is dead to the Divine exist- 
ence. He must then become as a little child, will- 
ing and eager to be taught by the great teacher, 
which is the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth. 

The following promises are for him who has 
been resurrected, the Real Man, and they are all 
to be realized while he dwells in the flesh body: 
Rev. 21 :4: "And God shall wipe away all tears 
from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be 
any more pain: for the former things are passed 
away." The things that are passed away are the 
carnal man and all of his attributes and manifesta- 
tions. No element of the real life has been lost. 



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A 
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

BY 
REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C P. 

BISHOP OF THE 
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

AUTHOR OF 
"NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 




THE GENUINE AND THE 
ADULTERATION 

LESSON NUMBER 
TWO 

CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 

SAN FRANCISCO 



Copyright, 1919 

by 

Wilma Alice Cosper 

AH Rights Reserved 



THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 

III The Mist. 

IV The Flood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



THE GENUINE AND THE 
ADULTERATION 

/^■•^HE fundamental principles of Christian 
If Philosophy are based upon an under- 
^"^ standing of man, the real, the creation of 
God; and man, the unreal, the perversion of the 
man whom God created in the beginning. It 
must be remembered always that there is but one 
.Creator which is God. 

The spiritual interpretation of the Holy Bible 
and the study of the allegories contained in its 
first chapters, while revealing what perhaps may 
be mistaken for a second creation and a second 
Creator, must never lead us to attribute to any 
force other than the Divine, the power to create. 
To man, however, has been given the capacity 
for applying, in his own sphere and according to 
his desire, the forces and laws which have been 
set in motion by Divine Intelligence. The abuse 
and misapplication of this privilege has resulted 
in the perversion of man himself and of the crea- 
tures and conditions under his control. 

Gen. 1 :26-27. "And God said, Let us make 
man in our image, after our likeness; and let them 
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creep- 
eth upon the earth. 

4 'So God created man in his own image, in the 
image of God created he him; male and female cre- 
ated he them." 

God said: "Let us make man in our image, 
after our likeness." But he "created" man in his 



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"own image," utterly ignoring the power with 
which he had conferred. It is incredible that 
God made a mistake or spoke a falsehood. If 
the Bible or any other book is to be read under- 
standingly, the reader must be discriminating. 
The careless reader is likely to overlook a signifi- 
cant feature of this quotation, the "us" and the 
"our." God was counselling with Mind, an es- 
sential member of the great whole. Mind is that 
part of Nature which furnishes Intelligence to all 
things created by God. 

Rom. 12:4-5. "For as we have many members in 
one body, and all members have not the same office: 

"So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and 
every one members one of another." 

The foot is not a hand nor has it the same 
duty to perform, yet both are parts of man. So 
also is Mind a part of God.* Mind is a solid 
but not as a solid piece of iron or stone. Mind 
fills all space, hence is immovable and cannot be 
robbed of a perfect contact throughout. As a 
fish moves through the water so does matter move 
through Mind. A fish in the Atlantic Ocean 
cannot change the location of the ocean. Matter 
can move in Mind and through it, but never can 
matter leave Mind and express the Divine Intelli- 
gence any more than a fish can leave the water 
and live. We cannot tell from whence came 
Mind, any more than a fish can tell from whence 
came the water. We are in Mind, of it, and con- 
trolled by it. It would be as foolish for matter 
to say to Mind: "Why did you create me 
thus?" as for a fish to say to the water: "Why 
must I stay in here always?" 



♦See explanation of God in "Nature's Way," Chapter I. 



THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION 7 

Mind is the finest of all spiritual elements, much 
finer than the smallest particles of matter. Mind 
is not composed of matter. It is like love in that 
we can feel the emotions and see the expressions 
of love and it is capable of activity yet it is not 
physical, although it does express upon that which 
is physical. Mind is composed of the same sub- 
stance as is love and both are indefinable. Mind 
likewise must express upon matter to be conceived, 
discerned, or to express intelligence. Mind inter- 
penetrates everything but never can it be swayed 
or controlled by matter. Matter has no intelli- 
gence except that which it receives from Mind. 

If God created nothing but good, from whence 
came evil? "God created man in his own image, 
male and female created he them." Gen. 2:3. 
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified 
it; because that in it he had rested from all his 
work which God created and made." God cre- 
ated and formed a perfect man and if he had 
remained perfect he never could have been con- 
trolled by sin or sickness. This creation hereafter 
will be designated "The Real Man," 

What at first thought would appear a Second 
Creation is a condition of hypnotism that invades 
the Real Man. This seeming creation was en- 
gendered by Lord Godf and not by God. 

Perhaps few students have realized that there 
are in the Bible three distinctly different uses of 
the term "heaven." The first "heaven" is men- 
tioned in Gen. 1:1: "In the beginning God cre- 
ated the heaven and the earth." Here "heaven" 
is used in the singular and is not capitalized. 



tSee "Nature's Way," Chapter III. 



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Love is discerned by expression, likewise heaven 
is acknowledged by expression. This heaven is 
the perfect state of consciousness which reflects 
all of the attributes of the Creator. There is but 
one Mind, one Intelligence and one heaven (the 
spiritual state of consciousness) created by God. 

The second "Heaven" is found in Gen. 1 :7-8. 

"And God made the firmament, and divided the 
waters which were under the firmament from the waters 
which were above the firmament ; and it was so. And 
God called the firmament Heaven." 

"Heaven" here is a symbol and it also refers to 
a condition in consciousness, the line of demarca- 
tion between the super-conscious thoughts which 
are produced by Mind and are "above the firma- 
ment," and the conscious thoughts of the brain 
which are "under the firmament." 

Gen. 2:4. "These are the generations of the 
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in 
the day that the Lord God made the earth and the 
heavens." 

Here we find "heavens" in the allegory of 
Adam and Eve. Lord God is the personification 
of the productive force of the invisible carnal 
mind "which is enmity against God;" this is the 
beginning of evil. "Heavens" in the plural typi- 
fies as many states of consciousness as there are 
brains now in existence; each brain has an indi- 
vidual reproductive capacity. Lord God, unable 
to create a man, invades the one created by God 
and then begins to rule man with a rod of iron. 
Lord God's weapons are sin, sickness, pain, hat- 
red, malice, revenge, envy, murder, jealousy, etc. 



THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION 9 



Gen. 3:14-19. ''And the Lord God said unto 
the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art 
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the 
field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou 
eat all the days of thy life: 

"And I will put enmity between thee and the 
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall 
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply 
thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt 
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy 
husband and he shall rule over thee. 

"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten 
of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou 
shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; 
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 

"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; 
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; 

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
return." 

Is it possible to believe that a good and just 
God, a God of Love, could curse man thus? 

Gen. 6:6-7. "And it repented the Lord that he 
had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at 
his heart. 

"And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I 
have created from the face of the earth; both man, 
and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of 
the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." 

Lord God here repents for all that he has done; 
how, then, could he be God, who represents per- 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



fection in all things? This should be proof 
enough to those who are willing to be taught, that 
Lord God in this allegory has no part in the real 
creation nor did he make a man at all. 

Gen. 2:21-22. "And the Lord God caused a 
deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he 
took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead 
thereof ; 

"And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from 
man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the 
man." 

This deep sleep which the Lord God caused to 
fall upon Adam was a hypnotic influence from 
the perverted brain. It is responsible for the 
creation of a mortal or carnal mind, and the 
attendant hell. 

Gen. 2:7. "And the Lord God formed man of 
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 
the breath of life; and man became a living soul." 

Here Lord God makes a man out of the dust 
(dust is the symbol of nothingness) of the .ground 
(mortality.) This was accomplished by the dis- 
torted reproduction of the thoughts which in the 
beginning were pure and beautiful. The ultimate 
result of this confused mental state is what we 
know as carnal or mortal mind. 

Gen. 2:17. "But of the tree of the knowledge of 
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day 
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." 

This tree typifies the carnal mind and those 
who eat the fruits of it, either seemingly good or 
obviously bad, are separated from God. All of 
the fruits are sin. Jesus said after some of his won- 
derful healings, "Go and sin no more lest a worse 
thing come over thee," implying that sickness was 
just as much of a sin as anything else. A person 



THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION I 1 



who pretends to teach truths expounded by Christ 
and is sick, or even accepts sickness as inevitable, 
is just as much of a sinner as the man who kills. 
This person may be considered the so-called 
"good" fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil. He is dead to the creative forces and 
can reap no reward from God no matter what he 
may think. Many a short sighted clergyman 
preaching a sermon on the resurrection day, has 
effectively portrayed the wonderful power of God 
— how on judgment day he will draw together 
all of the ingredients for each human body that 
has been dead perhaps for centuries, and its con- 
stituents disintegrated and blown to the four 
winds — how God will again unite all this flesh, 
bones, blood and other elements and judge the 
individual for his sins. Still, while attributing to 
God this wonderful power, the speaker has failed 
to realize some of the teachings of our great mas- 
ter, Jesus Christ, especially those contained in 

Matt. 10:1, 7, 8. "And when he had called 
unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power 
against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal 
all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 

"And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of 
heaven is at hand. 

"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, 
cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." 

If, as the theologian asserts, God has the power 
to bring all things together on resurrection day, 
why can he not repair the body when it is in 
need, just as Jesus commanded his disciples? 
Many clergymen hold that this healing power 
was given only to the disciples, but they overlook 
this statement made by Christ: St. John 14:12. 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believ- 
eth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; 
and greater works than these shall he do; because 
I go unto my Father." 

They do not recognize the necessity for resur- 
rection from the first death. Jesus said: "Know 
the truth and the truth will make you free." 
Anyone who teaches a Christian religion and is 
unable to accomplish the healing work as taught 
by Christ surely cannot "know the truth." 

Lord God acknowledged the wrong and re- 
pented for having caused the evil, then why 
should we follow his teachings especially since 
he has declared that he would destroy all of the 
things that he had made? 

Gen. 6:5. "And God saw that the wickedness of 
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination 
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." 

Here it is affirmed that it was the imagina- 
tion of the thoughts of the heart that was only 
evil continually. Once these imaginations are re- 
moved, the evil will disappear and the body will 
return to its normal state. 

Lord God put enmity between the serpent and 
the woman. Gen. 3:20. "And Adam called 
his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother 
of all living." 

And up to this point there has been mention 
of no living beings save Adam and Eve. In this 
we have another proof that the narrative is alle- 
gorical and not literal. Eve represents the origin 
of all evil. There is no record of Eve's death, 
for evil has not yet died. The struggle continues 
between the two elements, the true and the false, 
the Divine Mind and carnal mind, and — in the 
individual — the heart and the brain. 



THE GENUINE AND THE ADULTERATION 13 



Eph. 2:14-22. "For he is our peace, who hath 
made both one, and hath broken down the middle 
wall of partition between us ; 

"Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even 
the law of commandments contained in ordinances; 
for to make in himself of twain one new man, so 
making peace; 

"And that he might reconcile both unto God in one 
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 

"And came and preached peace to you which were 
afar off, and to them that were nigh. 

"For through him we both have access by one Spirit 
unto the Father. 

"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and for- 
eigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the 
household of God. 

"And are built upon the foundation of the apostles 
and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cor- 
ner stone; 

"In whom all the building fitly framed together 
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 

"In whom ye also are builded together for an habi- 
tation of God through the Spirit." 

This partition which is between the heart and 
the brain in the physical body is the origin of the 
enmity which one organ displays for another. 
Both assume that they are right. One or the other 
must give in if they are ever to restore peace in the 
body. If the brain receives thoughts from the 
carnal mind, the body will be governed by it and 
will manifest whatsoever mortality images thereon. 
If the carnal mind wishes to manifest upon the 
body a tumor, cancer, tuberculosis or any other 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



disease, the individual is unable to prevent it. 
These images of the carnal mind must be displaced 
by the Divine image of Perfection; then carnal 
man will be transformed into his Real Self. When 
we break down the partition between the heart 
and the brain and accept the "Spirit of God," so 
making peace in our bodies, we are resurrected 
from the first death and have become new men. 

Rev. 20:6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath 
part in the first resurrection: on such the second death 
hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and 
of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." 

For those who have been resurrected from the 
first death are these promises : 

Rev. 21 :3-4. "And I heard a great voice out of 
heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with 
man, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be 
his people, and God himself shall be with them, and 
be their God. 

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for 
the former things are passed away." 



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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

A 
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

BY 
REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. , 

BISHOP OF THE 
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

AUTHOR OF 
"NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 




THE MIST 



LESSON NUMBER 
THREE 

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by 

Wilma Alice Cosper 

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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration 

III The Mist. 

IV The Flood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



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OR now we see through a glass darkly, but 
then face to face; now I know in part; but 
then shall I know even as also I am known. 

Divine Intelligence with a formula, a mental 
image of its own creation, as its model, molded out 
of Space and Darkness a creature which we call 
man. Spirit, the activity of Mind, which we can 
best comprehend as Energy, supplied life to the 
creation. The Intelligence of Mind communi- 
cated constantly to man by means of mental im- 
ages the directions which were necessary for his 
well-being and understanding. 

Man's brain is a complex mechanism created by 
Mind for the purpose of receiving Divine Thought 
in the form of mental photographs or formulas and 
translating it into physical expression, into whatever 
language is native to the individual and at will into 
spoken words, which impress others through the 
corporeal sense of hearing. 

Words are at the best vague and inadequate 
attempts at the reproduction of thought, for the use 
of words and the interpretation of words depends 
almost wholly upon the circumstances of educa- 
tion. One word may convey as many different or 
modified ideas as there are persons to interpret it. 
The interpretation depends largely upon the men- 
tal images associated with that word in the ex- 
perience of the individual. This effect is of course 
to some extent qualified by the context but it is a 
factor which always must be recognized in the use 
of any form of communication which depends 
upon words, either spoken or written. To illus- 



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trate: speak the one word "dog" to a group of 
people, then ask them individually to describe the 
mental impression produced by the word. It will 
be found that on each brain it has produced a 
different picture. It is impossible for the individual 
to think merely "dog." In most cases the word 
will conjure a mental picture of a dog of a cer- 
tain breed and color. Usually it will be a certain 
dog prominent in the experience of the individual, 
or if it does not bring such a picture it will convey 
the thought "the word dog," "d-o-g" as distin- 
guished from other words in the language. This 
conception would be most natural to one absorbed 
in the study of the orthography and derivation of 
words. 

In any case the interpretation of any testimony 
of spoken or written word as of any other evidence 
of the five corporeal senses is colored by the asso- 
ciation of other mental images previously existent 
in the brain of the recipient. 

For this reason the manifestations of the physi- 
cal senses, so often accepted as conclusive, cannot 
be trusted absolutely. They depend for their ac- 
curacy upon the ability of the individual to receive 
the thought which originally preceded the words. 
It is therefore of infinitely more importance to cul- 
tivate this faculty of the "Sixth Sense"* than to 
acquire any learning which can be gained from 
books. For through the sixth sense, that of 
"thought photography," the original formulas are 
received by the brain and reproduced in pure un- 
adulterated thought which will guide the recipient 
unerringly in every detail of life. 

It is true that if the man who receives and be- 
comes conscious of Divine thought correctly trans- 



*Explained in Chapter VII of "Nature's Way." 



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lates that thought into words; another who hears 
the words may receive a false impression from 
them. If his brain does not receive the same 
thought which prompted the words of the other he 
can only imagine from his former experiences or 
education what the words were meant to convey. 
His imagination may mislead him and injure him 
but the fault is not in the Creator of the thought 
nor in the other's translation of the thought. The 
ignorance of the hearer is the only wrong. 

Those who must depend wholly upon the tes- 
timony of the physical senses will always be sub- 
ject to error. The evidence of these senses is de- 
pendable only as it is substantiated by the tran- 
scendent perception of the "Sixth Sense." The 
Real Man, the Son of God, of which Jesus was 
the perfect example, is always protected by the 
ability to detect the true and the false and to 
judge the reality of the physical manifestations in 
the light of spiritual knowledge. To judge by the 
physical senses is to "see through a glass darkly," 
to have the vision clouded by the mist of ignorance 
and error. 

Gen. 2:5-6. "And every plant of the field before 
it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before 
it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain 
upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the 
ground. 

"But there went up a mist from the earth, and 
watered the whole face of the ground." 

The mist is misunderstanding, which induces 
the brain's misinterpretation of Divine Images, by 
the haze which obscures the fine lines, the explicit 
instructions, the clear cut perfection of true thought 
photographs. 

To portray the disastrous effect of trust in the 



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evidence of the physical senses: suppose that for 
years a pilot has guided his boat into the harbor 
by the sound of a bell which guides him into the 
channel and by the sight of lights which mark the 
course. While the boat is on a voyage, the harbor 
officials decide that the bell should be moved to a 
dangerous rock outside the harbor's entrance and 
that the lights also should be placed on each side 
of it to warn incoming ships of danger. Their 
reasoning is, of course, faulty and their action de- 
plorable, but the boat returns and the pilot, who 
relies upon sight and sound steers his ship upon the 
rock and is destroyed together with all who have 
trusted their lives to his intelligence. Had he been 
able to receive thought as well as sight and sound, 
he would have become conscious through the spir- 
itual sense of the decision which prompted the 
change in the signals and his unerring guide, 
Divine Intelligence, would have enabled him to 
find the unmarked channel. 

The physical senses can never change Divine 
Thought, but the brain may reject or misinter- 
pret thought and accepting the senses as its pilot, 
be dashed upon the rocks of sickness, unhappiness 
and want. All error has for its cradle the failure 
of the brain to completely interpret the thought 
which is furnished it by Mind. The consequent 
acceptance of unreliable sense impressions nurtures 
error. 

Gen. 2 :20. "And Adam gave names to all cattle, 
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the 
field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet 
for him." 

This was the perverted Adam, "the figure of 
him that was to come."* 



♦Explained in Chapter Three, of "Nature's Way." 



THE MIST 



Rom. 5:12-14. "Wherefore as by one man sin 
entered into the world, and death by sin ; and so death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned : 

"For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is 
not imputed when there is no law. 

"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, 
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude 
of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that 
was to come." 

It is this Adam, the impostor, who names all 
things. This Adam, himself, is the product of per- 
version, the result of ignorance. How can it be 
possible for him to correctly name the creations 
brought before him? Only Divine Intelligence 
can supply the true name and meaning of each 
creature, and Adam by reason of the mist upon his 
consciousness is unable to translate the Divine 
Thought. In an incomplete and desultory man- 
ner according to the images already enthroned in 
his deluded brain, he interprets the fragments of 
thought, which penetrate through the mist. 

For instance, he perceives a black object, the 
Divine Intelligence flashes to his brain, the 
thought, "That is black." Adam, becoming con- 
scious of part of the message and guessing at what 
he does not understand, says: "Yes, that is white." 
No matter how often intelligence repeats "That is 
black," Adam's brain interprets the message and 
reiterates in all sincerity, "Yes, I understand that 
is white." Adam's posterity, in their turn dis- 
connected from the source of true knowledge and 
depending upon the education to be acquired 
through the physical senses, look to Adam for 
teaching. Adam tells them that black is white 
and they believe it and teach their descendants the 
same fallacy. Thus the errors are forced upon all 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

men and as time passes they increase in magnitude, 
like the proverbial bit of gossip many times re- 
peated, until in the beliefs and standards of the 
world there is little trace of the Divine Thought 
which is constantly seeking to redeem man from his 
own imaginings and to dispel the mist from the 
vision of humanity. 

Divine Intelligence communicates to Adam the 
message: "Man's heritage is health, happiness, 
and spiritual development." Adam fails to repro- 
duce the thought perfectly and says, "God has 
given us suffering and sickness that we may be 
made perfect." 

The mist still hangs heavily upon the face of the 
earth. Misguided man still labors under myriads 
of illusions, the race still bows to the authority of 
the False Lord God who placed upon it the curse 
of sorrow, pain and want. It cannot see, beyond 
the mist, the rainbow of the promise; 

"Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and 
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people 
and he shall be with them, and be their God." 

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sor- 
row nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, 
for the former things are passed away." 

When mortal man, blinded by the mist, finds 
that his body is imperfect or diseased, his first 
thought is of material remedies for he has been 
educated to believe in their efficacy. Usually he 
hastens to a physician and accepts his edicts as 
those of an oracle. His brain trained to travel in 
the paths beaten by ages of mortality, does not 
suggest the thought that since God created and 
formed man in the beginning without the aid of a 



THE MIST 11 



physician He may still be able to repair the mech- 
anism which He produced. If such a thought is 
suggested by another who has begun to emerge 
from the mist into the light of spiritual understand- 
ing, the sufferer, with the brand of ignorance upon 
him, will explain loftily that mental remedies may 
be all very well for those who have only imaginary 
ailments, but that he knows what is wrong with 
him and his case requires medicine — or manipu- 
lation — or diet — or at any rate he prefers to rely 
upon the wisdom of the physician. The phrase, 
"the doctor says," is today far more common than 
the one, "the Bible says," for the mist, while 
slowly lifting, still obscures the sun. 

By some in every age, the power of Mind has 
been recognized and demonstrated. The superi- 
ority of Spiritual remedies was illustrated in the 
case of a certain woman nearly twenty centuries 
ago and many today might profit by her experi- 
ence. 

St. Mark 5:25-29. "And a certain woman, 
which had an issue of blood twelve years, 

"And had suffered many things of many physicians, 
and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bet- 
tered but rather grew worse, 

"When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press 
behind, and touched his garment. 

"For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall 
be whole. 

"And straightway the fountain of her blood was 
dried up ; and she felt in her body that she was healed 
of that plague." 

Man should turn to his Creator for the correc- 
tion of the ills which have resulted from his failure 
to accept the Divine guidance in the past. The 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



only way by which humanity may be completely 
freed from pain and sickness is by the acquirement 
of spiritual knowledge. Every man, woman and 
child must be taught to rely, not upon the ability 
of the physician, the surgeon, the osteopath or 
the mental healer to correct the results of false 
thinking and wrong living, but upon the power of 
Divine Intelligence to dictate true thought and 
direct right activities, so precluding the very pos- 
sibility of sickness and sin. The magnitude of this 
task is almost inconceivable but it is the ultimate 
aim toward which all spiritual people are striving. 

Until a man can receive and correctly interpret 
the Divine messages, he is subject to the false be- 
liefs of others whom he trusts. He has a pain and 
consults a physician. The physician diagnoses the 
case, advises an operation and sends him to a sur- 
geon. The surgeon confirms the physician's opin- 
ion and sends the patient to a hospital. After 
the operation when the patient has spent several 
weeks or perhaps months (together with a consid- 
erable sum of money) in recovering from the or- 
deal, he may find that the pain is gone or he may 
find, like the woman of whom St. Mark wrote, 
that he "was nothing bettered but rather grew 
worse." 

Surely at the best the body receives a question- 
able service when it is deprived of any of its 
organs. It is doubtless true that many surgeons 
sincerely believe that in certain cases, operations 
are actually necessary, but this belief, however 
sincere, does not lessen the disastrous results 
which sometimes follow them. The fact that the 
surgeon recognizes no method more powerful than 
the knife does not mean that surgery is the highest 
form of remedial effort that man can or will 



THE MIST 13 



achieve. It means only that those who can not 
see beyond it for the mist before their eyes, must 
accept whatever aid or satisfaction it can afford 
them. 

Materiality can never satisfactorily govern the 
beings who were created by Spiritual Intelli- 
gence. 



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REGENT AND CUSTODIAN 




FOR 

INDIGENT MOTHERS AND 
INFANTS 

"Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, 
receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, 
but him that sent me" 



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THE FLOOD, Part I. 



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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

A 
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

BY 
REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C P. 

BISHOP OF THE 
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

AUTHOR OF 
"NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 




THE FLOOD, PART I 

LESSON NUMBER 
FOUR 

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by 
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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 

III The Mist. 

IV The Flood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



THE FLOOD 
Part I 

3T seems incredible that for hundreds of years 
intelligent and learned men have accepted 
the story of the Flood as the literal account of 
a deluge planned and executed by a wise God. 
Surely such believers have not paused to weigh the 
statements made in this record or to apply to the 
picture, drawn by the writer, the light of simple 
reasoning such as they would inevitably bring to 
bear upon the writings of their contemporaries. 

In order to justify our assumption that the Flood 
described in Genesis is purely allegorical, and has 
no reference to an actual flood of water, it is nec- 
essary to emphasize the inconsistency of various 
statements when considered literally. 

The very possibility that a loving Creator could 
destroy all of his children, save the very few de- 
scribed as having found favor with him, is incon- 
gruous with any natrual conception of God. Such 
an action could come only from a tyrannical na- 
ture. What would the world think today of a man 
if, because his children had disobeyed his com- 
mands, or in some way incurred his displeasure, he 
should deliberately drown them all? Would he 
not be liable to the most severe punishment which 
the law could inflict? How then can we reconcile 
our ideas of God with such an act? 

Again, we believe that God is wise, yet accord- 
ing to Moses* narrative, if it be read literally, God 
instructed Noah to build an ark, approximately 
four hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet long, 



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seventy-three feet wide, and forty-four feet in 
height. This large structure was to contain one 
window which was to measure about one foot and 
a half! What would we think today of the wis- 
dom of an architect who could plan such an ab- 
surdity ? The fate of the human beings who were 
left to perish in the water could hardly have been 
worse than this incarceration. 

In the 19th and 20th verses of the 6th chapter, 
God tells Noah to take into the ark with him two 
of every sort of living thing. In the 9th verse of 
the 7th chapter, it is stated that the animals went 
into the ark "two and two," the male and the 
female, as God had commanded. 

No explanation is made as to why in the second 
verse of the 7th chapter the Lord had said: "Of 
every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, 
the male and the female; and of the beasts that 
are not clean by two, the male and the female." 
Nor is it explained how the sevens are to be di- 
vided into pairs. 

After we have learned that Noah, disregarding 
the Lord's instruction and obeying God's original 
command, had taken into the ark two of each spe- 
cies, we find in the 20th veise of the 8th chapter, 
that Noah offered burnt offerings of every clean 
beast and of every clean fowl. How then was the 
replenishment of the earth to be accomplished? 

In Gen. 7:20, we read: "Fifteen cubits up- 
ward did the water prevail; and the mountains 
were covered." Fifteen cubits represents less than 
twenty-two feet. What kind of mountains were 
these which were hidden when the water was but 
twenty-two feet deep? Surely not physical moun- 
tains ! They were the obstacles in the way of the 



THE FLOOD — PART I 



spiritual perception, mountains of ignorance, doubt, 
fear, and selfishness. 

Surely all of these discrepancies must convince 
us that a literal version of the story is incredible. 
This fact, nevertheless, does not reflect upon the 
wisdom of the Creator, nor does it destroy, or in 
any degree impair the wonderful lesson of the nar- 
rative. It only discloses a fertile source of error 
in modern man's tendency to accept everything 
upon appearances and to look no farther than the 
realms of the corporeal senses. If we are to profit 
by the inspired writings of ancient peoples, we must 
understand something of the psychological condi- 
tions of their generations. 

In "Nature's Way," the principles of thought 
photography have been explained. All spiritual 
thought is impressed upon man's brain in the form 
of pictures or symbols. In order to communicate 
this thought to others, the brain must translate these 
mental photographs into thought. The simplest 
and most direct way for a spiritual person to ex- 
press these thoughts to others is by the description 
of the picture or symbol which he sees. The oldest 
writings we find in the form of pictures carved in 
stone. The allegory is the form of writing most 
nearly approaching this pictured thought. It is, 
therefore, to one in whom the sixth sense is highly 
developed, the clearest possible form of expression ; 
conforming most closely to the original Spiritual 
Thought. Among Oriental peoples the allegory 
is today a favorite form of expression, but among 
the Occidental races it is almost obsolete. The 
reason is that we have cultivated the five senses to 
a higher degree and have looked toward material 
delicate nerves of the sixth sense have atrophied 
from disuse and their function has been forgotten. 



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There remains still a recognition of the fact that a 
sixth sense exists but of its true nature almost noth- 
ing is realized by the world. 

To a materialistic, practical, modern man, all 
allegory is incomprehensible. He can see no reason 
for what seems to him a vague and unnatural style. 
Such a man usually discards the Bible as a myth 
and when the true meaning is disclosed to him pro- 
tests: "Why did they not write it so that it could 
be understood?" The reason is simple; the Bible 
was written by men of inspiration, which means 
men who received Spiritual Thought and relied 
upon the sixth sense rather than upon physical im- 
pressions. To them, therefore, the allegory was 
the most natural and the most easily understood 
form of speech. 

It was not employed, as many seem to imagine, 
for the purpose of puzzling and confusing the 
reader. The fault lies in our ignorance, and in the 
fact that we have educated the brain at the ex- 
pense of the Mind. To achieve true progress, we 
must renounce many of the conclusions which we 
have reached by much mental effort. 

As we read the allegory of the Flood in its sym- 
bolic interpretation, we find a story of wonderful 
beauty and of infinite importance to every man 
searching for the path which leads out of the 
swamps of mortality into the blossoming meadows 
of the Spiritual Consciousness. 

Gen. 5:28-29. "And Lamech lived an hundred 
eighty and two years, and begat a son : 

"And he called his name Noah, saying, This same 
shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our 
hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath 
cursed." 



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Noah was born for the purpose of re-establish- 
ing the spiritual conditions of fallen man; thus 
transforming into the perfect form the man created 
by the Lord God from the dust of the earth. This 
man we know is not a true man but is merely the 
distortion or perversion of the Real Man brought 
about by his own misconception of the spiritual 
messages communicated to his brain by the Divine 
Intelligence. The "dust of the ground" represents 
the mist of mortality, and it is of this that mortal 
man is formed. It is not difficult to realize how 
this creation can be instantly destroyed by the real- 
ization of spiritual truth. A physical mist may ob- 
scure an object or render it so indistinct, that we 
mistake it for something very unlike it. We may 
see a rock and call it a tree, but when the sunshine 
disperses the mist, where is the tree? Thus when 
the spiritual light penetrates into man's misguided 
brain, the creation of the mist disappears, the man 
formed of the dust of the ground is no more, 

It was Noah's mission to bring about the de- 
struction of this man of illusion. The flood was for 
the purpose of destroying this man and no other. 
While Noah was probably an actual historical 
personage, he represents in the allegory the person- 
ification of individualized Spiritual Consciousness 
and had he been merely a mythical figure, the 
meaning and usefulness of the truth presented in 
the story would be in no wise impaired. 

Gen. 2 :7. "And the Lord God formed man of the 
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life; and man became a living soul." 

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of 
the ground and breathed into his nostrils the 
"breath of life/ 1 In the study of "Nature's Way," 
the reader has recognized the expression, "the 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

breath of life," as the mark by which the creations 
of the false Lord God are designated.* 

We learn now through further study of the al- 
legory that the Flood was planned for the express 
purpose of destroying these creations. 

In Gen. 6:7, the Lord, not God, says: "I will 
destroy man whom I have created." In the 1 7th 
verse of the same chapter, God says: "And, be- 
hold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon 
the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the 
"breath of life." 

Gen. 6:1-2. "And it came to pass, when men 
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daugh- 
ters were born unto them, 

"That the sons of God saw the daughters of men 
that they were fair; and they took them wives of all 
which they chose." 

The term "sons of God" refers to the spiritual 
creation before the fall, and not to a particular 
sex. The "daughters of men" are the creation of 
Lord God, the carnal beings, whether male or 
female. 

Gen. 6:4. "There were giants in the earth in 
those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God 
came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare chil- 
dren to them, the same became mighty men which were 
of old, men of renown." 

The union of the Real Man with the mortal 
man has produced the adulterated creature which 
we today call man. Mortal man or carnal man 
can exist only as a parasite, diverting into false 
channels a part of the energy and activity which 
rightfully belong to the Spiritual Man. 



♦Read last paragraph, Chapter IX, of "Nature's Way." 



THE FLOOD — PART I 1! 



"The same became mighty men which were of 
old, men of renown." The general acceptance of 
mortality and submission to the curses of the im- 
postor Lord God, finally changed the whole 
thought of the world and men accepted as their 
ideals these perverted and unreal creations. False, 
erring and distorted mortals became "mighty men 
of renown." 

Gen. 6:5. "And God saw that the wickedness of 
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination 
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.' ' 

Some students of the Bible have averred that 
God's eyes were too good to behold evil. We learn 
here that "God saw that the wickedness of man 
was great." In this verse is named the beginning 
of all man's troubles. It was the imagination of 
the thoughts of his heart, which was evil. This 
does not mean that sickness, pain, and sorrow are 
only imaginary, but it does mean that the origin of 
every pain or sorrow or discord lies in an imagina- 
tion, in other words, a failure to reproduce clearly 
in the brain the message of a Divine Thought. 
The message thus perverted, misleads the brain 
and causes it to err in the application of supplies 
which are given for the maintenance of bodily wel- 
fare. It wrongly mixes chemicals, which thus be- 
come harmful rather than nutritious and the organs 
are impaired; their strength and vitality lessened, 
and pathological conditions of various sorts are 
manifested. These are all actual, existing condi- 
tions, but all are due to the original "imagination 
of the thoughts of the heart." 

Whenever a man can be shown the true mode of 
life, so that he can fully realize his error, the full 
and perfect acceptance of the Divine Thought 
builds up and completes the imperfect mental pic- 
tures which his brain has held. The deficiencies in 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



his understanding and in his flesh are then supplied 
naturally and the imagination disappears, together 
with the corresponding ailments and abnormal con- 
sequences. 

To illustrate the dangers and the extent of the 
effect of one wrongly interpreted thought: God 
creates the grape with its delicious and wholesome 
juice. To each man who comes in contact with 
the fruit, the Divine Intelligence gives an appetite 
for, and a keen enjoyment of the wholly desirable 
juice of the grape. As time passes the same In- 
telligence tells man how to form cups of leaves and 
how to extract the juice from the grapes and drink 
it from the cups. But one man who fails to obey 
perfectly a message from the Divine, presses out 
two cups of juice instead of one, as the Intelligence 
had instructed. He drinks one cup and having no 
appetite for the second, puts it aside for another 
day. When he returns to it, it has fermented and 
become an intoxicating wine. The Divine Intelli- 
gence sends him a message of warning, but the 
brain through its first imagination has lost some- 
thing of its alertness and it does not heed the mes- 
sage. He drinks the wine and in the exuberance 
of the senses which follows, believes that he has 
discovered a wonderful means of spiritual exalta- 
tion. He repeats the experiment and makes larger 
and larger quantities of the liquor. As he con- 
sumes it in excessive quantity he begins to see 
things which do not exist. He tells others of this 
vision and they, too, believe that he has discovered 
a source of wonderful power which permits him to 
look into the spiritual world and see things that to 
them are invisible. When they learn that it is the 
juice of the grape which has given him this power 
they are eager to experience the same novel sensa- 
tions. Soon they, too, become slaves to the strong 



THE FLOOD — PART I 13 

drink and live in a world of illusion and false 
thought. 

God created the grape for a good purpose, 
but man has misunderstood the messages by which 
the Divine Intelligence has instructed him in its 
proper use and he, himself, has made it a curse. 

God also created the apple, and for a beneficent 
purpose, yet man has extracted the juice from the 
apple and made an intoxicating liquor, which was 
not God's creation. Likewise the grains which 
furnish both man and animals with one of the most 
important food supplies have been made to yield 
the most harmful of liquors under man's perverted 
manipulations. Through the same misunderstand- 
ing man has built up for himself a false world, an 
unnatural existence in which sickness, pain, and 
want have usurped the places of health, happiness, 
and abundance. 

Gen. 6:6-7. "And it repented the Lord that he 
had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his 
heart." 

"And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I 
have created from the face of the earth, both man, and 
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air ; 
for it repenteth me that I have made them." 

We have in these verses complete proof of our 
assertion that the Lord God referred to throughout 
Genesis is not God. It would be impossible for an 
omniscient God to do something for which he must 
afterward repent. God does not make mistakes. 

The Lord herein promises to destroy the mortal 
conditions which he has created, but even to this 
day they exist in the greater number of people. 
The Flood represents an individual experience, not 
an event which included all of mankind. The de- 
struction of mortality can be accomplished only in 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



the individual just as each individual builds up his 
own world of illusion. The Flood began for some 
men thousands of years ago, in others it is only now 
beginning, still others buried in the mist of error 
have not yet opened their hearts to its purifying 
tide. 

Gen. 6:8-1 0. "But Noah found grace in the eyes 
of the Lord." 

These are the generations of Noah : Noah was 
a just man and . perfect in his generations, and 
Noah walked with God. 

"And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and 
Japheth." 

Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth repre- 
sent different mental forces operating in the con- 
sciousness of the one individual. 

Gen. 6:1 1. "The earth also was corrupt before 
God, and the earth was filled with violence." 

The "earth" to which the writer refers is not 
the planet upon which we live, but is the symbol 
of the physical man whom God had created in 
all perfection. 

Gen. 6:12. "And God looked upon the earth, 
and, behold, it was corrupt ; for all flesh had corrupted 
his way upon the earth." 

"Flesh" is always the symbol of mortality. We 
have here repeated assurance that God recognized 
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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 

III The Mist. 

IV The Flood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



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THE FLOOD 
Part II 

EN. 6:13. "And God said unto Noah, The 
end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth 
is filled with violence through them; and, be- 
hold, I will destroy them with the earth." 

God spoke to the individual Spiritual Conscious- 
ness in man. 

Gen. 6:14-16. "Make thee an ark of gopher 
wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt 
pitch it within and without with pitch. 

"And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it 
of : The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, 
the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty 
cubits. 

"A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a 
cubit shalt thou finish it above ; and the door of the ark 
shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second 
and third stories shalt thou make it:" 

The ark represents the human heart, the recep- 
tive organ for Divine Thought. The description 
of the ark which makes it an absurdity if accepted 
literally is a symbolic reference to the structure of 
the heart which fits it for its spiritual functions. The 
fact that Noah is instructed to build this ark means 
that he is to recognize the nature and faculties of 
the heart in this capacity. 

Gen. 6:17. "And, behold, I even I, do bring a 
flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, 
wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and 
everything that is in the earth shall die." 

How different is the picture symbolically ex- 
pressed in this verse, from the old literal belief of 



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a Flood of water which was sent to destroy men 
and women and children, unsuspecting little lambs 
and innocent babies. The term "waters" is the 
symbol of Spiritual Thought in the impalpable 
form in which it is transmitted from Mind to the 
individual We have explained heretofore that 
the "flesh in which is the breath of life," represents 
mortal or carnal conditions and not necessarily 
animal tissue. The deluge of Divine Thought is 
to destroy all mortality. It is obvious that the re- 
ception and acceptance of the all-intelligent could 
not permit of the harboring of ignorance or mis- 
understanding. 

Gen. 6:18-19. "But with thee I will establish my 
covenant ; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and 
thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 

"And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every 
sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive 
with thee; they shall be male and female." 

The wife of Noah and his sons' wives imply the 
power of reproduction which must always remain 
alive. The "male and female" of all flesh has the 
same significance. Noah takes into his haven the 
very conditions which are to be destroyed. How 
can we account for this fact if we read the record 
literally? 

The symbolic interpretation clears away the 
mystery. The only way to destroy ignorance is to 
turn it into intelligence, hence the end of mortality 
can come only when, in the words of Paul, "This 
corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this 
mortal shall have put on immortality." 

So Noah gathers these false beliefs and cor- 
rupted visions into the seat of all consciousness 
where they may receive the direct flow of Divine 



THE FLOOD — PART II 



Intelligence and thus be transformed into true un- 
derstanding and correct mental images. 

Gen. 6:20. "Of fowls after their kind, and of 
cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the 
earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto 
thee, to keep them alive." 

"The fowls" are symbolic of the thoughts which 
have been formed by Mind, but have not yet en- 
tered the individual heart. The recipient, there- 
fore, is as yet unconscious of their messages. The 
"cattle" represent thoughts which have been re- 
ceived but not yet translated into conscious thought. 
The "creeping things" are the insidious, perverted, 
mental forces, which turn pure thoughts into imag- 
inations and falsehoods. 

Gen. 6:21 . "And take thou unto thee of all food 
that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it 
shall be for food for thee, and for them." 

The food upon which all of these subsist is the 
invisible etheric supply. 

Gen. 7:1. "And the Lord said unto Noah, Come, 
thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I 
seen righteous before me in this generation." 

The Lord God has repented for his errors and 
has turned his perverted activities back into the 
proper channels. He is now carrying out the plans 
of the true Intelligence. 

Gen. 7:2. "Of every clean beast thou shalt take 
to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of 
beasts that are not clean, by two, the male and his 
female." 

Seven is a symbolic figure and has no reference 
to actual number. It means a complete condition, 
however small or large. The male and female, as 
above, indicate the reproductive propensities, the 
ability to multiply and increase. 



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Gen. 7:4. "For yet seven days, and I will cause 
it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; 
and every living substance that I have made will I 
destroy from off the face of the earth." 

"Seven days" means the completion of intelli- 
gence. "Forty" is a symbol of continuity. "Days" 
mean intelligence and "nights" typify ignorance. 
The rain is to fall until continuous intelligence has 
superseded the former ignorance. We must ob- 
serve here that it is the Lord and not God who 
says, "every living substance that / have made 
will I destroy." 

Gen. 7:10. "And it came to pass after seven days 
that the waters of the flood were upon the earth." 

The flood of Spiritual Thought fell upon man. 

Gen. 7:1.1. "In the six hundredth year of Noah's 
life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the 
month, the same day were all the fountains of the great 
deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were 
opened." 

The "great deep" represents Space and all that 
it contains, the "cosmos" is perhaps the most famil- 
iar synonym. 

In the lecture, "The Genuine and the Adultera- 
tion," has been given the interpretation of the con- 
fusing terms "heaven," "heavens," and "Heaven." 
We read now that the windows of "heaven" were 
opened. This heaven is the Divine Consciousness. 
When these windows were opened, a deluge of 
Spiritual Thought was poured upon man to drown 
all mortality, all of the creations of the false Lord 
God. 

Gen. 7:14. "They, and every beast after his kind, 
and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping 
thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and 
every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort." 



THE FLOOD — PART II 9 

The "bird" is here mentioned for the first time. 
It represents falsehood. 

Gen. 7:15. "And they went in unto Noah into 
the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath 
of life." 

We are again reminded that it is the flesh 
"wherein is the breath of life" which is to be de- 
stroyed. This expression might be said to be the 
trademark borne by the creations of Lord God. 

Gen. 7:17. "And the flood was forty days upon 
the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the 
ark, and it was lift up above the earth." 

At this point the light has overcome the dark- 
ness of ignorance. The forty nights are forgotten 
and only the days remain. The Spiritual Thought 
now dominates both heart and brain. The Divine 
Thoughts enter the heart, are imaged clearly upon 
the brain and man follows the dictates of God. 

Gen. 7:18. "And the waters prevailed, and were 
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went 
upon the face of the waters." 

The heart, symbolized by the ark, rested upon 
the Divine Intelligence. 

Gen. 7:20. "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters 
prevail; and the mountains were covered." 

These are the mountains of ignorance, doubt, 
fear, and selfishness, not of earth and rock. 

Gen. 7:21 . "And all flesh died that moved upon 
the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, 
and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
earth, and every man." 

Gen. 7:22. "All in whose nostrils was the breath 
of life, of all that was in the dry land, died." 

The writer again emphasized the fact that it 
was "all in whose nostrils was the breath of life," 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



who died. The dry land represents the barrenness 
of mortality. 

Gen. 7:23. "And every living substance was de- 
stroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both 
man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl 
of the heaven: and they were destroyed from the 
earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that 
were with him in the ark." 

They were "upon the face of the ground,' 9 which 
is the mortally guided brain. They were destroyed 
from the "earth," from the Real Man, whose do- 
main has been invaded by these illusions. Mor- 
tality, ignorance, and misunderstanding died, and 
there remained alive only Noah (the Spiritual 
Consciousness) and they that were parts of that 
consciousness. 

How different is this picture from the vision of 
hundreds of thousands of men, women, and chil- 
dren drowned by an angry God. 

Gen. 8:1. "And God remembered Noah, and 
every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him 
in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the 
earth, and the waters asswaged;" 

Throughout the allegory it is necessary to dis- 
tinguish between the works of God and those of 
Lord God. It is God here who caused the wind 
to pass over the earth. This wind blew away the 
last vestige of the mist. The misrepresentation of 
Spiritual Thought by the brain is now completely 
corrected. 

Gen. 8:2. "The fountains also of the deep and 
the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from 
heaven was restrained;" 

The deluge of Spiritual Thought ceases when 
mortality, with all the curses of Lord God has been 
overcome. After this clear and perfect state of 
consciousness has been attained and the Flood is 



THE FLOOD — PART II II 

ended, there continues a constant, quiet flow of 
Divine messages, but this is a flow of etheric sup- 
ply, not the cleansing overwhelming charge of the 
Divine Forces upon the ranks of ignorance and 
error. 

Gen. 8:3-4. "And the waters returned from off 
the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred 
and fifty days the waters were abated. 

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the 
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of 
Ararat. " 

The sevens here represent, not a certain definite 
period of time but, as before, the completion of the 
undertaking, whether it is accomplished in a mo- 
ment or after many years. 

Gen. 8:5-6. "And the waters decreased contin- 
ually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the 
first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains 
seen. 

"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that 
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had 
made:" 

This is the first indication that we have had of 
any ventilation of the air-tight structure in which 
Noah and his family and all of the animals have 
been housed for about nine months. A literal in- 
terpretation is obviously impossible. 

Gen. 8:7. "And he sent forth a raven, which went 
forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from 
off the earth." 

The raven represents doubt, hesitation. It is 
forced out of the brain of Noah, never to return. 

Gen. 8 :8-l 2. "Also he sent forth a dove from him, 
to see if the waters were abated from off the face of 
the ground ; 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



"But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, 
and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters 
were on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth 
his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into 
the ark. 

"And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he 
sent forth the dove out of the ark ; 

"And the dove came in to him in the evening; and 
lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off : so Noah 
knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 

"And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth 
the dove; which returned not again unto him any 
more." 

Noah sent the dove from the heart to find lodge- 
ment in the brain. We find the dove again in the 
New Testament, where the symbolic significance is 
given. 

Luke 3:22. "And the Holy Ghost descended in 
a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came 
from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; 
in thee I am well pleased." 

The descent of the Holy Ghost upon the indi- 
vidual marks his resurrection into a spiritual life. 
This is the most important event in any man's life. 
Its import is shown in the following verse : 

Rev. 20:6. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part 
in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath 
no power, but they shall be priests of God and of 
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." 

The most glorious promises of the Bible apply to 
those who have been resurrected from the death of 
mortal existence. 

Rev. 21 :3-4: "And I heard a great voice out of 
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 



THE FLOOD — PART II 13 



people, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
their God. 

** And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for 
the former things are passed away." 

No effort is too great for the attainment of this 
reward. 

The olive leaf which the dove brought back to 
Noah is the symbol of the reconciliation of the 
brain and the heart. 

Gen. 8:13. "And it came to pass in the six hun- 
dredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of 
the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : 
and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, 
and, behold, the face of the ground was dry." 

Noah removed all sense of separation of the in- 
dividual consciousness from the Divine Intelli- 
gence. The face of the "ground," mortality, was 
no longer watered by the mist. 

Gen. 8:14-17. "And in the second month, on the 
seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth 
dried. 

"And God spake unto Noah, saying: 

"Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy 
sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 

"Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with 
thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that 
they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruit- 
ful, and multiply upon the earth." 

God's command to Noah is a command to every 
person who has been resurrected into the true life. 
He is to bring forth from his heart every phase of 
Divine Intelligence that it may be fruitful and mul- 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

tiply upon the earth. This entails a two-fold duty, 
that of increasing and broadening his own under- 
standing and that of dispensing truth to all man- 
kind. 

Gen. 8:20-21 . "And Noah builded an altar unto 
the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every 
clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar." 

If all these animals went into the ark in pairs to 
replenish the earth, and Noah sacrificed one of 
each, how could they breed? 

"And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the 
Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground 
any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's 
heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite 
any more every thing living, as I have done." 

The burnt offerings typify Noah's recognition 
and acceptance of the true Lord as a spiritual 
power. 

When mortality has been destroyed in a man, 
the purpose of the Flood is accomplished. How 
gladly should we all welcome such a deluge! It 
may destroy many of our cherished illusions, but 
it brings freedom from the hypnotic influence of 
the Lord God who fastened upon man the crea- 
ture from the "dust of the ground." It restores to 
us the peace and power and dominance which 
God gave to his creations and removes fear, 
doubt, and delusion forever. 

Gen. 8:22. "While the earth remaineth, seedtime 
and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and win- 
ter, and day and night shall not cease." 



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AUTHOR OF 
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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration 

HI The Mist. 

IV The Hood, Part I. 

V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



MAN VERSUS NATURE 

fiM T varying intervals in the history of man, 
\ZJ| there have been periods of bloodshed and 
^^ suffering, of political, intellectual and relig- 
ious turmoil and revolution. Is this fact due to 
progress? Does the growth and development of 
man necessitate such suffering? Normal develop- 
ment, true growth, can have no such disastrous by- 
products. They indicate an unnatural, or rather 
an anti-natural, activity, a mistaken attitude to- 
ward life and progress. 

Back of the World War there is a Universal 
War, a great, futile, destructive conflict, waged 
unwittingly yet ceaselessly by all peoples through 
many ages. It is the War against Nature that has 
made possible the widespread devastation of the 
World War. 

There has been expended in this War all of the 
energy of which millions of men are capable and 
all of the destructive agencies procurable for many 
millions of dollars, with the attendant destruction 
of the results of the labor of both Nature and man 
for generations past. What incalculable good 
could have been accomplished for humanity by the 
constructive application of the concerted energy of 
all of the warring nations working for any mutual 
good! What comfort could have been obtained 
for all of the subjects of all of the governments that 
have been engaged in the conflict if the money that 
has been expended for deadly munitions could 
have been used with safety for the upbuilding of 
the several nations! Such waste is directly op- 
posed to the scrupulous economy of Nature which 
utilizes every atom for some constructive purpose. 

It is true, but none the less lamentable, that 
heretofore no nation, however peace-loving, could 
with impunity expend its resources for the better- 
ment of its political, social, or industrial conditions, 



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for it must be prepared to defend its liberty against 
aggressors who employ the methods of modern war- 
fare. Permanent alleviations of these grievous 
situations can come only upon a basis of inviolable 
peace. 

There is but one way to overcome a wrong con- 
dition : First, to uncover the root of the error, then 
to destroy the root. We may for centuries cut off 
the various branches as they are forced upon our 
consideration, but always new shoots spring up 
and grow unnoticed until they have reached ma- 
turity. Then the ripened fruit of battle and de- 
struction falls upon the world and "history repeats 
itself" because we have not discovered and up- 
rooted the error that has been responsible for it all. 
Permanent, universal peace must have a firmer and 
more logical foundation. It must come from an 
arrangement which is not out of conformity with 
Nature, for Nature is more powerful than all na- 
tions, and while man may pervert her products and 
ignore her laws, he can never gain the supremacy; 
for all he enjoys of power and capability he owes 
primarily to Nature, and eventually she will re- 
assert herself. If man is in harmony with her, he 
will benefit by her victory. If he is blindly oppos- 
ing her, he will be crushed. 

Through his ignorance of the Natural Laws, 
man has assumed an authority to which he has no 
right. Like a child who plays with machinery 
which it does not understand he will inevitably 
suffer. Man has deemed it his privilege to bring 
about by any possible means, variations in species, 
either of plants or animals, that his selfish desires 
may be satisfied. Accentuated by selfish aims and 
seeing only the immediate and obvious results of 
such experimentation, man labels as progress the 
destruction of characteristics which Nature has 
deemed necessary for the permanent welfare of the 
universe. 

Nature has established a perfect balance 



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throughout all creation. How dare man presume 
to tamper with so stupendous and perfect an ad- 
justment? Can he not see that such interference 
can bring him nothing but ultimate disaster? In 
cases innumerable the results have been obviously 
deplorable, yet in others where the havoc is less 
conspicuous man continues to glory in his apparent 
victory over Nature. 

The result of the introduction into America of 
the English sparrow is a familiar example of man's 
inability to calculate the outcome of his experi- 
ments. In attempting to play one of Nature's or- 
ganisms against another in order that the weaker 
may be exterminated, man has thus introduced 
various species into districts where they had been 
unknown. Often the new species has proved less 
desirable than those which they have destroyed. 

Man must not assume that he knows the reason 
for every animal's existence and the reason for its 
every activity, or that, if he does not know the 
reason, there is none. He cannot safely block the 
activities of every species which does not please 
him. Everything that Nature has produced upon 
the earth has been put here to fill some specific pur- 
pose. The fact that man is often unable to dis- 
cover or agree with that purpose, is an indictment 
of man rather than proof that the creative intelli- 
gence is at fault. Whenever man attempts to im- 
prove upon the provisions that Nature has made for 
all creation, the results are immediately or even- 
tually disastrous. Still man is unable to see that 
these disasters have been due to his own bungling 
attempts to improve upon Nature or to divert and 
control her activities. 

Every one of Nature's adjustments is so exact 
and so delicate that the slightest interference or 
deviation may precipitate an incalculable calamity. 
Yet through the ages man has continued to experi- 
ment with varying degrees of intelligence and un- 
derstanding until practically every species upon the 



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earth has been influenced — almost every plant and 
animal has been forced to depart from its natural 
sphere and to undertake activities foreign to itself 
in order that it might survive in the midst of un- 
natural conditions. 

Proportionate with man's extended investigation 
into the organism and properties of plants have 
been his efforts to adapt all species to his own 
short-sighted desires. This deleterious propensity 
has culminated in the highly intensified processes 
of Plant Experimentation. Instigated by selfish 
aims, man has eliminated in the cactus the thorns 
which Nature provided for the protection of the 
plant. He has removed from the grape and the 
orange the seeds which were intended to insure the 
continuation of the species. He has produced in 
familiar flowers and fruits undreamed of colors and 
forms and an almost inconceivable variety of char- 
acteristics. Only man's pleasure has been consid- 
ered in these efforts. Never have the rights or 
needs of the plant been respected, nor has its place 
or purpose in the great intellectual plan of the uni- 
verse received due consideration. The following 
quotation is proof of the attitude of the leading 
plant experimenter of the century : 

"About the only difference between this (Mr. 
Burbank's) method and Nature's method, is that 
in the wild state the characteristics that are likely 
to be preserved through natural selection are those 
that are advantageous to the individual plant that 
manifests them, whereas under conditions of arti- 
ficial selection, the plant developer considers not 
the needs of the individual plant but the taste and 
needs of men. 

"Perfume is developed in Mr. Burbank's calla, 
for example, and in his fragrant petunias and ver- 
benas, not because this is of advantage to the 
plants themselves, but because the perfume is pleas- 
ing to the human nostrils. Similarly the blue color 



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of the poppy is to please the human eye, the crin- 
kled leaf of the geranium to satisfy a human taste 
for the bizarre, and the varied forms of the Shasta 
daisy to gratify aesthetic sensibilities."* 

Even the experimenters themselves realize that 
they are not producing any new thing, that they 
are merely uncovering or accentuating some trait 
long hidden in the germ-plasm of the subjects of 
their experimentation, or that, on the other hand, 
they are obscuring some trait which originally be- 
longed to the species. In other words, the power of 
creation belongs to a higher intelligence than the 
brain of man, and likewise there has fortunately 
been withheld from man the power to destroy one 
atom of God's creation. Science long ago recog- 
nized the fact that "matter is indestructible." There 
still remains in man's hands, however, the power 
to pervert and misappropriate the forces that have 
been given into his charge. It is undoubtedly true 
that the original forms, before any human manipu- 
lations were practiced, manifested all of the desir- 
able characteristics of which they were capable, 
and none of the harmful and destructive propensi- 
ties which man is unwittingly propagating. Of 
these occult characteristics more will be said later 
on. The author of the following quotation con- 
sidered only the obvious features: 

"An interesting question arises as to whether 
such accentuation of a peculiarity or tendency may 
amount to a bringing out of a new characteristic 
that was not represented in any ancestor, near or 
remote. 

"Is Mr. Burbank's light blue poppy, for exam- 
ple, the first of its kind; or, were there blue flow- 
ers among some of the ancestors of the poppy? 

"The best view appears to be that the seemingly 



♦Page 149, "Luther Burbank, His Life and Work," by 
Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Hearst's, 1915. 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



new trait was really submerged in the ancestral 
germ-plasm, if the phrase be allowed, and has 
been made tangible by the removal of more or less 
antagonistic traits that obscure it. In the case of 
the blue poppy, for example, the submergence was 
doubtless of long durations for blue poppies have 
not been the fashion within the memory of man; 
but through successive generations of selection, the 
factors of yellowness and redness are removed, 
and an individual finally produced in which the 
primal blue, which was probably the color of some 
very remote ancestral poppy, was revealed. In a 
crude way, the process might be compared to the 
restoration of an ancient canvas by the removal 
of successive layers of pigment with which it had 
been overlaid."* 

It is unnecessary in this work to deal at length 
with the principles by which plant experimenters 
alter the characteristics of the various plants, for 
the variations are so familiar that no one can ques- 
tion their existence. It is worthy of note, however, 
that in order to intensify certain desired characteris- 
tics, it is necessary to destroy thousands of indi- 
vidual plants which hold to their natural traits de- 
spite man's interference. 

Both in plants and in animals such variation has 
been produced by cross-breeding or hybridization. 
This occurs directly by the effort of man, or is 
caused indirectly by man's interference in the past 
with the natural activities of the various species. 
A true species will never hybridize with another 
species, except through the agency of man. Many 
hybrids^ which have been \n existence as long as 
man's records extend are considered true species, 
and these may sometimes spontaneously cross- 



*Page 35, "Luther Burbank, His Life and Work," by- 
Henry Smith Williams, M. D., LL. D. Hearst's, 1915. 



$The Latin word Hybrida or hibrida, a hybrid or mon- 
grel, is commonly derived from the Greek — an insult or 
outrage, with especial reference to lust ; hence an outrage 
on nature, a mongrel. — Enc. Britannica. 



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breed. Often man's responsibility for the cross- 
breeding of plants is so remote that it is not easily 
recognized. So far as history shows man has 
known of the sexual function of plants only since 
the seventeenth century. His intentional instrumen- 
tality in the hybridizing of plants, therefore, has 
been confined to the last three centuries, but long 
before this he had unconsciously influenced their 
activities. It is generally recognized that the direct 
agent in cross-breeding is usually an insect, most 
frequently bees or related species. The appetite 
of the insect for the pollen of different species is 
what leads it from plant to plant and produces 
cross-fertilization. The appetites, the structure, 
and the habits of practically all insects have been 
influenced by man's control and manipulation of 
their environments. It is to man, then, that the 
responsibility reverts. In the original, natural state, 
hybridization would never occur. 

In the case of animals, if the species are widely 
separated, the sex cells will not unite, but in species 
similar to one another, it is possible for them to 
unite and form a new individual, a hybrid, unlike 
either parent, often obviously and always poten- 
tially a freak, an unnatural monstrosity. 

With the natural union of the male and female 
reproductive cells of the same species, each cell is 
satisfied, there is perfect equilibrium between the 
two halves, all that one lacks the other supplies, 
and the result is an equally well-balanced, normal 
individual, true to the species and able to breed 
true and function normally. When individuals 
belonging to different species are cross-bred, there 
is not this balance; on one side or the other there is 
excess; each may have qualitative demands that 
the other is unable to satisfy, and each may have 
characteristics that the other cannot utilize. It is 
inevitable that the offspring will be an unnatural 
creature. In the divine economy of nature, such 
a hybrid is out of place. It must infringe upon 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



some of the legitimate fields of some of the real 
species, in turn forcing these to trespass upon the 
rightful domain of still others, until finally the whole 
of creation has been diverted • from its true course 
and original purpose and man is groping blindly 
amid these false conditions of his own making, 
vainly endeavoring to discover his own purpose 
and his heritage of peace and happiness. 

Fortunately in species which are very dissimilar 
cross-breeding does not result in offspring. It is 
impossible to cross two individuals which belong to 
what are classified as different "families." If the 
species belong to the same family and are still quite 
dissimilar, they may bring forth young, but the off- 
spring thus produced will be sterile. The mule is 
the most familiar example of such a case. It is 
only with species very near to one another that 
hybridization results in fertile offspring. Man has 
been able to circumvent this sterility in the case 
of plants by propagating the hybrid by grafting — 
by sacrificing a pure type and making its roots and 
stem bear an adulterated fruit. 

Each plant originally filled a definite place in 
the plan of creation, containing chemicals and pos- 
sessing certain qualities which were calculated to 
accomplish a specific purpose. Such vegetables as 
were intended for man's food contained chemicals 
which were compatible with the chemicals, mechan- 
ism, and functioning of the human body. When 
man begins to alter any of the characteristics of 
these plants, he cannot calculate the results. He 
may, in the adaptation of a vegetable form, pro- 
duce a different combination of chemicals than 
was originally intended, and so do unsuspected yet 
incalculable harm to those who eat the products. 
Such thoughtless adulteration of man's food has 
produced in the body, appetites and cravings for 
more obviously harmful adulterations such as stim- 
ulants, intoxicants and soporific drugs. 

Man has partaken of the fruit of hybrid plants 



MAN VERSUS NATURE 13 



and has fed upon the flesh of animals which have 
eaten these hybrid forms of vegetation. Thus he 
has taken into his own body quantities of chemi- 
cals which it was never intended to assimilate. This 
"forbidden fruit" has been the direct cause of most 
of the ills of the flesh, and so long as man continues 
to produce new hybrids, new diseases will continue 
to appear, just as many new diseases have devel- 
oped in the last decade. These unnatural foods 
are not merely useless or unnecessary — they are 
absolutely and invariably harmful. Little does man 
realize of the danger he courts when he opens this 
Pandora's box of "improvements upon Nature." 
Nothing less than Infinite Intelligence is to be 
trusted with the manipulation of the processes of 
Nature. Every anti-natural activity is an obstacle 
to the fulfillment of the purpose of the universe. 
Man assumes tremendous responsibility when he 
instigates such processes. 

In the original state, under the rule of omnis- 
cient Nature, each species had its own products 
to contribute and its own species to propagate. 
Each was subordinate to the whole and each 
served as a source of food for other species. All 
worked together to form one harmonious mechan- 
ism, just as the different members and organs of 
the body, functioning normally, contribute to the 
well-being of the body. It is just as impossible to 
decide what is good for man or any other species, 
without regard for the rest of creation, as it is to 
consider the welfare of the heart or the lungs or the 
brain entirely apart from the welfare of the body. 
The universe is a unit and what is not universal 
good is not good for any individual. A peace, 
so-called, that is not universal will bring to no 
individual — hence, no class or nation — true or 
lasting peace. 

From a superficial survey, it would seem that 
selfishness is at the root of all the error. This, how- 
ever, is not true, for if man were intelligently self- 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



ish he would realize that the only way to attain 
permanent, unassailable satisfaction for himself is 
to work for the satisfaction of the needs of all the 
universe. The real sin is ignorance, blindness, in- 
ability to see to the bottom of things. Man's great 
aim should be to see things as they are, to under- 
stand what is actually going on about him and 
what he, himself, is doing, but under the mesmerism 
of popular beliefs he accepts without question the 
conclusion of those who are considered "authority." 
He is too indolent to express his inherited ability of 
unbiased discernment. Some one says to another: 
"How convenient it would be if we could grow 
oranges without seeds!" The other readily agrees 
and they discuss and emphasize the advantages of 
the proposed modification because it is something 
that they desire for personal gain. Finally the 
desired alteration of Nature's product is accom- 
plished. Oranges without seeds are produced and 
the world loudly acclaims the victory of science, 
recognizing a questionable temporary profit and 
utterly disregarding or unconscious of the fact that 
they are cheating Nature and robbing her creations 
of the greatest and most essential factor in their 
existence — the power to "multiply and replenish 
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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration 

HI The Mist. 

IV The Hood, Part I. 

V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



M THE FALL OF MAN" 

SN order to explain the way in which man has 
perverted the animals, it is necessary to go to 
the origin of the perversion in man, for the 
man who is responsible for these outrages against 
Nature is himself perverted, a creature less than 
the real man, a man who has "come short of the 
glory of God.*' 

"In the beginning" God created the heavens 
and the earth, and all that in them is. The length 
of time during which this creation was consum- 
mated, the exact sequences of creation and the 
extent to which subsequent creations depended 
upon previous ones does not concern us here; but it 
may be well to point out that similarity of structure, 
while it may prove that the similar organisms were 
created by the same Intelligence and by qualita- 
tively the same process, does not prove a conse- 
quent sequence nor any degree of interdependence. 
That these organisms were created by one Intelli- 
gence which was and is the personification, or 
rather the deification of perfect system and abso- 
lute order is axiomatic; that these living, self- 
conscious, volitional organisms have spontaneously 
evolved from inert, unconscious, absolutely passive 
matter is inconceivable. Furthermore, it in no wise 
concerns us here to know or to discuss the time at 
which creation was completed, the date at which 
the system was perfected and was able, merely 
by the operation of Divinely established "Laws of 
Nature" to automatically continue in its own oper- 
ation, every subsequent event being governed by 
these laws. 

A few of these laws have been discovered by 
man through observation of their operation; many 
more of them are entirely unknown in the realms of 
science. Such, for example, are the laws through 



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the operation of which Jesus Christ was able to 
change water to wine, multiply the loaves and 
fishes, etc. Let us therefore take, for present pur- 
poses, the case of creation at the moment of com- 
pletion and perfection. All Nature is in perfect 
equilibrium; each species is operating in conjunc- 
tion with every other species, not consciously, with 
intent to please, but through the operation of Na- 
ture's librations. Man is the greatest of all crea- 
tions. He finds about him all that is necessary for 
his well-being — the plants and animals which fur- 
nish him with food, shelter and raiment. 

Heretofore we have considered all these 
questions on a purely physical and material basis, 
without regard for any intelligent, rational mental 
or volitional control. When we begin to consider 
the acts of man we must go back to their cause, 
and every act has a mental cause. Material 
science, mistaking effect for cause, has grown to 
believe that this mental cause arises in the brain, 
in the super-oesophageal ganglion. 

Although psychologists, anatomists, physiolo- 
gists and alienists have worked on this subject for 
many years, and although they have developed 
many ingenious theories concerning association, 
etc., and have located and charted portions of the 
cerebrum which seemed to be the locality of cer- 
tain cerebrations, still they have never explained 
the origin of thought, the retention of memory or 
the ultimate, intrinsic nature of consciousness. 

The fact is that the brain is not a thinking or- 
gan, thought does not originate in the brain, the 
brain is incapable of producing thought of any 
kind. Let us first examine the original, the true, 
the unadulterated way in which primal man re- 
ceived thought, that we may understand better the 
imperfect way in which man now cerebrates. 
"Cerebrates" is used to denote the cerebral activi- 
ties connected with thinking, not to express actual 
thinking, i. e., the production of thought. 



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All of the intelligence which man manifests is 
received from the Divine Intelligence. This Intel- 
ligence is received through vibration by a set of 
superlatively minute nerve cells to the spinal cord, 
the medulla, the cerebellum, and thence to the 
cerebrum. In the natural state, the pathway of 
these messages is unobstructed and the messages 
are received perfectly, the cerebrum interprets them 
perfectly, and the body is consequently governed 
perfectly. With the entrance to the body of every 
natural chemical substance comes the necessary 
intelligence for its assimilation and use. This in- 
telligence does not pass through the cerebrum but 
is used by the nervous system in its control of the 
body, and the organism is never conscious of any- 
thing except the results. Messages governing the 
conscious conduct of the body, are transmitted to 
the cerebrum, and the subject is therefore conscious 
of them. He may not be conscious of the source 
but he understands the messages and obeys them. 

This is a description, let it be understood, of the 
natural, the true method, the method used by per- 
fect man who was the expression of God's idea of 
the "image of God." At the moment of comple- 
tion and perfection, man and every other organism 
was thus governed. 

Then man selfishly plucked a beautiful flower, 
and later he touched this plucked flower to a flower 
which was growing upon a plant. This cross-pol- 
lenized the plant, and when the resulting hybrid 
fruit was ripe man saw that it was unusual, and 
he did eat. This was a substance which had no 
place in the Divine Plan and for which there was 
no formula. The mixed, confused formula which 
came with this hybrid, partly from each of the 
true stocks, made a confused and incomplete pic- 
ture or image upon the brain. This resulted in 
confusion in the assimilation of the substance, the 
body made its first mistake, and man experienced 
his first pathological condition. Man, however, 



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did not see the disaster. He merely found that he 
had discovered something new; that he, the indi- 
vidual who had eaten the hybrid fruit, was able to 
experience a sensation which no man had ever 
felt. Therefore, he set himself above other men, 
as a superior being. Other men began to worship 
him and to attempt to do as he had done. Then 
he, to prove his power, taught others to do the 
same thing, and as each ate, his body was poisoned 
by the unnatural food, and each man's body be- 
came defective — The Natural was altered to 
please man's tastes and desires. 

This, however, was a slow and often uncertain 
process, and man soon found a quicker way of pro- 
ducing the same results. Whereas, prior to this, all 
thoughts that were transmitted from one being to 
another were simply expressed by the vibration of 
the intelligence, with every individual in perfect 
contact with the Divine Intelligence, and each able 
to draw for himself all that was necessary for his 
own guidance, now there came a thing for which 
there was no symbol or parallel in Nature's code. 
Therefore man invented a means of signs, per- 
ceived through the corporeal senses, by which to 
convey these new conceptions. 

Very quickly, as the system developed into lan- 
guage, and as man, through his love of novelty, 
came more and more to depend upon this new 
method and to use it exclusively, the old method of 
receiving all intelligence directly from the Divine 
was forgotten, the vibratory nerve centers were 
poisoned, relaxed and coarsened. Man was soon 
unable to communicate with the Divine even when 
he wished to do so. 

It was then no longer necessary to cross flowers 
to get these new fruits, and thus attain the new 
conditions and sensations, and in a few genera- 
tions, since all things had to be taught to each 
child through the medium of the corporeal senses, 
the knowledge that was not used by any genera- 



8 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

tion was soon lost, for man had not yet perfected a 
written language. 

It was not until the last three centuries that man 
again began to interfere to any degree with the 
breeding of plants. But now, with the accretion of 
the knowledge of many centuries, he is able to in- 
tensify this destructive process and to operate upon 
a scale undreamed of by primal man. 

At the time when each man was governed by the 
Divine, there was no possible way or conceivable 
reason for one individual to control in any way the 
conduct of any other. Each man, for himself, led 
his life as it was given him, and let others lead 
theirs. But now it became different. With the 
advent of spoken language, men began to influence 
one another, to suggest procedures to one another, 
to attempt to "use" one another. The control that 
one man could exert over another man was soon 
found to be very great, and the more perverted the 
man, the farther he was from the Natural, the more 
did he wish to control others, and the more disas- 
trous was this power. 

It was also learned that the more often a man 
submitted to the control of another man, the more 
difficult it became for him to resist control, and the 
easier it was for that man or another to dictate to 
him. In the case of the particularly susceptible, it 
was not even necessary to express the wish in the 
physical symbols for the operator was able, simply 
by means of his perversion and misapplication 
of the laws of vibration, to induce the subject 
to implicitly carry out his desires. This power is 
much more widely distributed and practiced than 
is commonly supposed. Many audible commands 
carry their real power in the correlated mental 
command. 

At the time when all were governed by the 
Divine there was a great plenty for all; but now, 
under the mismanagement of man's attempted im- 



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provement, the individuals had lost their power to 
obtain naturally all that was necessary for them, 
and certain men, seeing that there was not enough 
for all, began to hoard supplies, to barter and 
trade, and finally they made a medium or standard 
of exchange — money. 

The struggle for money and all that it repre- 
sented soon became and still remains one of the 
bitterest struggles of the race. Men, then as now, 
under the craze for gold, trampled and wantonly 
destroyed every object, creature or person that 
stood between them and their glittering goal. 

But man did not stop with these self-destructive 
measures. He used every power at his command 
to utilize every plant and animal to satisfy his self- 
ish ambitions, utterly regardless of the effect upon 
the objects of his manipulations. He wantonly 
destroyed those things which were useless to him 
to make way for something which he could use. 
The destruction of these things which he did not 
want, but which were the source of supply for 
some other creatures, left those other creatures 
without their natural foods, and they were forced 
to attack other things, to change their appetites 
and habits, to destroy things which they otherwise 
would never have harmed. 

Since the dawn of history man has been striving 
to improve these conditions which he has brought 
upon himself, but always he has worked in the 
wrong directions, always looking toward improve- 
ment by getting away from Nature, by making 
greater changes, by applying his ambition to things 
as they were, instead of striving to return to the 
real and Natural. Thus he has sometimes suc- 
ceeded in making things more nearly as he wished 
them, only to be further from satisfaction than 
ever, for each realization of a dream brought the 
desire for more new things. Despite their inven- 
tions, their achievements, their so-called progress, 
men are today dissatisfied at heart, striving for 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



something which they do not find, missing the joy 
of living, yet always eagerly pressing on, unable 
to see the error, unwilling to acknowledge their 
mistake, still clinging blindly to the age-old as- 
sumption of superiority to Nature. 



"THOU SHALT NOT KILL" 
One of the great primal laws of Nature is that 
no creature shall cause the death of any other crea- 
ture except when the slaughtered victim is actually 
to be used as food. This law has been defied by 
man more, perhaps, than any other. Man, when 
he sees any creature, which seems to his paltry and 
distorted mind to be undesirable, immediately sets 
about to destroy it as completely as possible with- 
out even a vestige of conscience or consideration of 
the rights of the massacred. 

By thus aligning himself against Nature, by 
thus using his utmost influence and power on the 
side of perversion, he severs whatever remaining 
contact there may have been between himself and 
Nature, and is thus separated from his one reliable, 
adequate and infallible protection. As can plainly 
be seen the one impelling power behind the whole 
unnatural process is man's selfish ambition to do as 
he pleases, utterly regardless of any other person 
or thing, regardless of his own ultimate welfare or 
the immediate welfare of the others of God's 
creations. 

An example of this is the world-wide command 
to "swat the fly." Children are lauded and are 
paid bounties for the murder of these defenseless 
and highly useful insects. Everywhere it is ac- 
counted a great honor to take part in the wholesale 
killing of the supposedly injurious fly, whereas, if 
the truth were known, the good that this insect does 
is so much greater than any undesirable activities 
which man can lay at its feet that the actual im- 
mediate result is deleterious, not to mention the in- 
comparably disastrous, although almost always 



THE FALL OF MAN II 



unseen, effect upon the moral and mental status 
of the murderer. 

Man has discovered that a fly frequently has, 
clinging to his feet, certain microscopic organisms 
and that as he walks about, he frequently drops 
and leaves behind him a small portion of these 
minute germs, bacteria, or whatever the scientist 
may label them. This is altogether true. The fact 
which is frequently or wholly overlooked is that 
the flies are feeding upon the germs, that they are 
the flies' chief article of diet, and that the num- 
ber on their feet are insignificant in comparison 
with the immense numbers which they eat. 

The man of science further assumes that these 
minute organisms are the cause of disease, or rather 
that a few, a very small portion of the thousands 
which man has identified and classified, are the 
specific causes of certain diseases. Wilmott Evans, 
a noted English surgeon and author, has made the 
following statement as to the effects of germs : 

"If germs cause disease, how is it possible that 
any of us can survive when germs are as numerous 
and as widely spread as I have described them? 
Fortunately for us, all germs are not harmful. Of 
the many thousands of germs which are known to 
us, only a very small portion can give rise to dis- 
eases of the human body, while on the other hand, 
many germs are of the utmost importance in daily 
life. If it were not for germs, malt would never 
give rise to beer, and the juice of grapes would 
never become wine. If it were not for germs, no 
cheese would ever ripen, and dough would never 
rise. 

"The special and much appreciated flavor of 
certain butters are said to be due to the presence 
of certain germs. Vinegar is produced by the ac- 
tion of a particular kind of germ, and it is possible 
to quote many other instances of the importance 
of the action of germs in daily life. When dead 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



vegetable material is placed in the soil, it cannot 
be utilized to make the soil more capable of pro- 
ducing plants until its structure has been changed 
by the action of certain germs which have this 
function. Every one interested in gardening 
knows the value of a large supply of nitrogen in 
the soil for the growth of crops; it is therefore of 
great interest to know that within recent years we 
have learned that there are certain microbes espe- 
cially associated with and growing in the roots of 
peas and beans which possess the power of taking 
nitrogen from the air and combining it so that it 
can be utilized for the growth of plants. 

"All germs give rise to certain chemical sub- 
stances and some of these are retained within the 
body of the microbe and some are set free, and it 
is probably through the action of these chemical 
substances that germs produce many of the actions 
to which they give rise."* 

On page 63 of the same book he gives still fur- 
ther evidence against the theory that germs cause 
disease : 

"In the mouth, in health, may be found, even in 
perfect health, many varieties of bacteria. It is 
clear therefore, that the mere presence of an or- 
ganism in the body cannot be taken as proof that 
the body is suffering from the disease caused by 
that organism. In the mouth, in health, can be 
found the germ that causes pneumonia, and so on 
the surface of the skin can usually be discovered 
those which give rise to boils and abscesses. Part 
of this absence of disease, in spite of the presence 
of the organism, is doubtless to be ascribed to one 
or more of those protective influences which will 
be found described in the chapter on Immunity; 
and if the tissues are healthy, the germ is unable to 
grow freely and awaits the time when, by some 



♦Page 51, "Medical Science of Today," by Wilmott 
Evans, M.D., B. S., B. Sc. London, F. R. C. S., England. 
Seeley & Co., London, 1912. 



THE FALL OF MAN 13 

local damage or in some other way, the tissue will 
become vulnerable to its attacks." 

Here Dr. Evans has beautifully arranged and 
stated an excellent indictment of the germ theory, 
but he fails to draw the obvious conclusion, he fails 
or refuses to convict the theory which he has be- 
friended. "There are none so blind as those who 
will not see." 

Nor does the author whom we are quoting stand 
alone nor is he particularly remarkable among 
scientific authors — he is taken merely as an exam- 
ple of the technical authors of today. 

As we have stated before, every species of 
plant and animal has been affected by man's cu- 
pidity. Each has been forced to leave its natural 
sphere and acquire appetites, tastes and habits 
which are naturally foreign to it. This is the case 
with the germs. Certain germs, intended to assist 
in the disintegration of dead bodies, to decom- 
pose organic waste, and to play a definite part 
in the plan of Nature, have found that their 
only chance of survival lies in the capacity to 
assimilate certain substances which are present in 
the body which is pathological, which is suffering 
from the mal-assimilation of the unnatural foods 
which man has forced upon it, or from the many 
secondary conditions thus invoked. 

The germs lie in the body, just as our esteemed 
contemporary has noted, eking out a meager exist- 
ence, just able to survive and produce a few off- 
spring, but patiently awaiting their chance. Then 
the body acquires the disease which produces the 
necessary food stuffs for the germs. Immediately 
they begin to thrive. They are able to produce 
myriads of their kind, and where only a few were 
able to live in the healthy body, now there are 
ideal conditions for millions of their kind. 

These little germs, forced by man to acquire un- 
natural tastes, are concomitant with the disease 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



which produces their food, and the scientists, 
finding these germs present about in proportion to 
the progress of the disease, conclude that they 
have produced it. It is the time-honored error of 
confusing cause and effect. 

Having decided that these germs are the cause, 
the scientists set about to destroy them and to de- 
stroy whatever agent they can find responsible for 
their transportation. The consequence is their edict 
to "swat the fly," a course which will never bring 
about the elimination of disease. 

Man has not confined his destruction to the ani- 
mal world. In fact, due to his belief that plants 
are without feeling or sensation, he has been par- 
ticularly careless of the way in which he has treated 
all forms of vegetable life. As a matter of fact, 
plants suffer as intensely as animals or humans, 
although their expressions of agony are less ob- 
vious. Because most plants are incapable of quick 
movements, because they cannot express their suf- 
ferings in any audible way, and because they, are 
unable to make any very active defense, man has 
been willing to murder, mutilate and destroy them 
in any way that he has seen fit, without even the 
slight restraint through which the obvious suffering 
of animals has sometimes caused him to mitigate 
or forego his crudest crimes against them. The 
power of animals to defend themselves has also 
prevented man from doing many things which he 
otherwise would have done. In self-defense many 
plants have found, since perverted man began his 
crimes against them, that such means as tactual 
poisons, briars, etc., are the only means by which 
they can survive the onslaughts of their arch-enemy, 
man. 

Proofs of the sensitiveness of plants are not dif- 
ficult to produce. All plants respond, more or less 
quickly, to a number of stimuli, such as heat, light, 
gravity, moisture, etc. Many plants open and 



THE FALL OF MAN 15 

close their flowers as light is present or absent, re- 
spectively. A number of plants, such as the pitcher 
plant, the fly catcher, etc., are capable of quick 
movements which indicate a highly conductive ner- 
vous mechanism. 

"To gratify esthetic sensibilities," man tears a 
beautiful flower from its parent plant and places it 
where he can enjoy its beauty with the least pos- 
sible exertion. The crime against Nature, the 
murder of the plant and the flower, and the de- 
struction of the hundreds or even thousands of im- 
mature seeds which the flower bears — these things 
are never considered, these are insignificant in 
comparison with an act that will "satisfy a human 
taste." 

Our sympathies are with those who love flowers 
for decoration, but flowers are more beautiful on 
the plant than off, and the little extra care that is 
necessary is more than repaid by the knowledge 
that our selfishness is not satisfied through murder 
— that our ambitions are not un-Natural and anti- 
Natural. 



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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

A 

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

BY 
REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. 

BISHOP OF THE 
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

AUTHOR OF 
-NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 




VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE 
UNITS 

LESSON NUMBER 
EIGHT 

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SAN FRANCISCO 



THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 

III The Mist. 

IV The Hood, Part I. 
V The Hood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



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VITAL ENERGY 

' HAT is vital energy, and from what is 
it derived? 

Man assumes that the energy for 
every activity of the body, the maintenance of the 
bodily temperature, and everything that man does 
or can do is derived from the oxidation of the food 
which he ingests. Simple quantitative experiments 
have disproven this, but man, with the evidence 
against the belief, still continues to cling to his con- 
viction that such is the case. Compared with the 
most perfect combustion engines, man is ten times 
more efficient, if the food is the only fuel for the 
body. Compared with the most exact calorimeter, 
man gets incomparably more energy out of his sys- 
tem than the oxidation of his food can account for. 

In this respect, of course, man does not stand 
alone. The animals derive their energy in pre- 
cisely the same way as man. A pigeon with only 
two ounces of wheat in its crop, for instance, can 
fly for hundreds or even thousands of miles, and 
expend in locomotion and the maintenance of 
bodily heat, energy that would require more than 
twenty-five times that amount of food. It has 
been claimed that this energy has been derived 
from the oxidation of stored-up foods, but experi- 
ment shows no decrease in bodily weight that will 
account for this. Nor can the tremendous and 
long-continued work of Arctic dogs, mountain 
guides, domestic animals, etc., be accounted for in 
this way. 

It must be remembered that only a portion, and 
usually only a small portion, of the food taken 
into the body is assimilated, that a large portion of 
the food taken into the body is excreted as waste 
matter. It is, of course, only that portion which 
the body actually assimilates from the ingested food 



VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 5 

which can be considered as furnishing fuel for the 
body. 

The fact is that there is going on in all living 
organisms a high degree of radio-activity; that 
matter, under the catalytic agency of life, becomes 
radio-active; that the atoms involved in these or- 
ganic reactions are profoundly affected; that their 
internal system of electrons is actually altered. It 
is in this, the catalysis of life, that organic reactions 
differ from all others. It is the presence of this 
greatest of all catalytic agents, life, which accounts 
for the enormous amount of energy which an or- 
ganism is able to produce. 

A simple example of this is the case of the 
chlorophyll or green coloring matter of plants. This 
substance, in the presence of light is able to cap- 
ture, combine, and thus solidify the free carbon 
dioxide of the air into a form which the plant can 
use. Man can learn analytically the chemical con- 
stituents of this substance and he can put these 
things together but he cannot make the resulting 
substance capable of utilizing carbon dioxide, sim- 
ply because he cannot provide this mass with the 
sine qua non, life. And a mass of chlorophyll that 
has once been deprived of its life, by desiccation, 
for example, can never again carry on life activi- 
ties, although there are some that can lie dormant 
for long periods while partially desiccated and can 
immediately resume their normal activities when 
proper conditions are restored. 

Similarly, on a small scale, in every cell in the 
body there is going on a process of slight atomic 
destruction, that is, radio-activity. The chemist 
excuses his ignorance of these processes, of the 
chemical and physical properties of living matter, 
by saying that it is "unstable" that it will not wait 
for him to apply his tests, that it will simply "break 
down" or return to its elemental state. 

This radio-activity, this liberation of a portion 
of the electrons which comprise the atom, is going 



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on wherever there is life. The immense amount of 
energy that the complete destruction of only one 
atom yields is almost incredibly great, and the 
partial destruction of atoms which takes place in 
living matter yields unthinkable quantities of en- 
ergy. The following example will give some idea 
of the energy changes which accompany radio- 
activity : Radium gives off enough heat every hour 
to melt its own weight of ice, and the life of a 
piece of radium is about 1 200 years. This means 
that, in round numbers, there is enough energy in 
any quantity of radium to melt 10,500,000 times 
its own weight of ice. 

Nearly all of our knowledge of radio-activity 
has come in the last two decades, and it is safe to 
say that the scientists will have solved by the end 
of the century, many of the mysteries which still 
surround it. 

In the animal and human body there is another 
significant aspect of this subject of radio-activity, 
and correlated is another false belief of the physiol- 
ogist. It is generally believed that the food which 
is taken in through the mouth, and the air which is 
breathed are the only sources of supply for the 
body. All of these things are taken into the body 
in the atomic or molecular state. But the process 
of supplying the body does not stop with the things 
that are eaten and the air that is breathed. 

In the organic world, with the exception of re- 
actions involving radium, thorium, and similar 
metals, and the phenomenon of gas flames, etc., 
practically all reactions do not affect the internal 
structure of the atom; it is the arrangement of the 
atoms not the atoms themselves that are affected. 
But in living matter there is a different state of 
affairs; there is a constant interatomic disturbance, 
a changing about and liberating of the electrons 
composing the atoms. 

Associated with this internal electronic reaction, 
is a process by which the body is supplied from 



VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 7 

without by a stream of electronic units, the cor- 
puscular elements of atoms which are entirely be- 
yond the realms of chemistry. 

These almost infinitely smaller and more mobile 
electrons are not controlled in the crude ways in 
which atoms and molecules are governed. To un- 
derstand these electrons and their activities it is 
necessary to go as far beyond the electrons as the 
electrons are beyond the solar system in the scale 
of comparative magnitudes. These electrons are 
each a unit much as the solar system is a unit, but 
not in any ultimate sense of the word. They are, 
as physical scientists are beginning to believe, far 
from being simple or ultimately elementary. 



THE ULTIMATE UNITS 
Conceptions of unity are always difficult, and 
they usually prove to be erroneous. Man's con- 
ception of the ultimate units of matter has under- 
gone great change within the last two decades. 
Conceptions of the atom which had stood for cen- 
turies with little change except greater definiteness 
went down before the onslaught of investigations 
of radio-activity. No one now believes the atom 
to be "the ultimate particle of matter" that it was 
once considered. 

Recent experiments with radio-active substances, 
rarified gases, gas flames, and various electrical 
discharge phenomena have given rise to electronic 
and corpuscular theories which, in turn, have served 
as a step in the proof of the existence of such units, 
for the electrons are units just as atoms and mole- 
cules are units, but they are not ultimate units. 
These are generally believed to be not matter at 
all, in the ordinary sense of the word, but rather a 
sort of disembodied electrical charge, a unit of 
negative electricity. The size of these electrons is 
uniform and their mass is usually considered to be 
about one-thousandth part of an atom of hydrogen, 
the lightest known atom. Associated with these 



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electrons there are positive charges of much greater 
magnitude but of much less number. 

The discovery of these electronic units has given 
rise to a new conception of the internal structure of 
the atoms. They are now believed to be not in- 
comparable to the solar system, the immense num- 
bers of electrons revolving about the positive 
charge. 

These electrons, due largely to their inconceiv- 
able minuteness, are practically beyond the range 
of direct observation. Various conceptions have 
been offered, but the one most commonly accepted 
is that they are a sort of vortex or whirl in the 
ether. At its best, this is very vague, but that fact 
must inevitably result from the vague conception 
of "ether" which is at present principally nega- 
tive. 

There is, however, in these vague and often pur- 
blind investigations and results of scientific work, 
the element of truth. This conception of the elec- 
trical nature of the corpuscles or electrons, and the 
fact that atoms consist of electrons, and that all 
matter consists of atoms has led to the conception 
that all matter is electrical phenomena. Still fur- 
ther, the conception of the electrons as revolving 
vortices of which the ultimate units of revolution 
are wholly intangible invokes the conception of 
electricity as motion — as motion of what the scien- 
tists, for lack of better name or conception, call 
"ether." 

The conception of all matter as motion is fun- 
damentally correct, but the conception of ether, if 
not erroneous, escapes error only by being confined 
to negation. At its best, the ether conception is 
wholly inadequate. 

These electrons are, in fact, similar to the atoms, 
being a sort of epitome or miniature of the atom, 
just as the atom is an epitome of the solar system. 

The particles, the revolution of which gives rise 
to the phenomenon of the electron, are also little 



VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 



vortices. This is the last of the epitome series. In 
this case the axis and the two substances in revolu- 
tion are ultimate, elemental, homogeneous, in the 
fullest meaning of the words. 

Let us now consider the intrinsic nature of each 
of these three elemental and ultimate unities. 

The first of these, and probably the most diffi- 
cult of conception, is Mind. This is unchangeable, 
immovable, absolutely homogeneous, and abso- 
lutely solid. It always has existed and always will 
exist, exactly as it is now. Every point (in the 
mathematical sense of location without magnitude) 
in it or of it in perfect contact with every other 
point. Thus every point in Mind has the same 
intelligence as the whole Mind. Perceptions of 
time and space must be entirely eliminated from 
conceptions of Mind, for it is clearly beyond the 
realm of both of these conceptions, for both time 
and space in their ultimate analysis are only "con- 
ceptions," convenient tools of the mundane intel- 
lect. Here the word "space" is used in the sense 
of the three geometrical dimensions, the sense in 
which it is used in such expressions as "matter is 
that which occupies space" and "two things cannot 
occupy the same space at the same time." 

Space, however, has another meaning, which, 
although it may seem superficially to be the same, 
is as different as, for example, red is different from 
middle C, that is, they are simply incomparable. 
It is this Space with which we are now concerned. 
This conception of Space is independent of arbi- 
trary units of linear, square, and cubic mensura- 
tion. This is the Space which is more nearly 
synonymous with emptiness, wholly unaffected by 
the presence or absence of any substance. This 
is the Space which surrounds the cosmos, this is 
the Space which scientists have attempted to fill 
with "ether." 

This Space is immeasurable, infinite, ubiquitous, 
but always it is of itself absolutely and invariably 



10 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



passive, it is capable of transmitting vibrations, it 
is the frictionless medium of certain impulses. 

There is a common conception that space is neg- 
ative, that it is merely the absence of anything. 
This belief is false. Space is the real, the positive 
condition, the eternal and the infinite, "that which 
occupies Space" is negative, the antithesis of 
Space. This, true Space, is one of the ultimate 
units, the irrefragable elements, concomitant with 
and inseparable from Mind. 

The other of the three original and eternal uni- 
ties is Darkness. This also is commonly thought 
of and defined as "the absence of light," but as in 
the case of Space, Darkness is the real, the positive, 
the indestructible. The vibrations set up by in- 
candescent matter are able to make it temporarily 
imperceptible, but it is always present, and the 
moment that the source of incandescence is de- 
stroyed or removed, the Darkness immediately re- 
asserts itself. It is unlike light, which once extin- 
guished can never reassert itself except through the 
agency of a new cause. 

Let us remember that Mind, Space and Dark- 
ness are the real, eternal, indestructible, infinite, 
ubiquitous, homogeneous realities, altogether out- 
side the realms of time or geometrical mensuration. 
This does not mean that all things are outside the 
realms of time or dimensions, nor does it mean that 
the things which are perceived by corporeal senses, 
measured by arbitrary units of time and space, are 
"unreal," "imaginary" or invariably deleterious 
and intrinsically contemptible. The disparaging 
reflections which scientists, soi-disanU have at- 
tempted to cast upon "matter" have been equaled 
in futility and absurdity only by the attempts of 
certain scientists to prove that matter is all-power- 
ful, that the human brain is the highest intelligence 
that ever existed or now exists, that salvation can 
be attained in "fifty years," or perhaps even 
"thirty" if a sufficient number of investigators will 



VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 1 1 



devote themselves to the study of the phenomenon 
of old age and its prevention, said "salvation" to 
consist of a deathless human body, of endless 
earthly, corporeal life. 

Matter was created by Mind, the Divine Mind, 
for a Divine purpose, and the misuses which man 
has made of his God-given liberty does not alter or 
affect this truth in any way. All things were given 
to man for his use, and with them was given the 
perfect understanding of their uses, and perfect 
liberty in their use — such liberty as could be given 
and made possible only by an Infinite Intelligence. 

In Mind, omniscient and infinite, all things were 
completed and finished before anything was "cre- 
ated." In Mind there is now the perfect "For- 
mula" for everything which now appears, or which 
ever was, or ever will be manifested in matter. 
Each and every natural substance, every particle 
of matter, every organism, every system, every phe- 
nomenon has its Formula in Mind. Using these 
Formulas, Mind then begins the creation of matter. 

Revolving about Mind, as an axis, Darkness 
and Space form the first material units. These 
little vortices are no longer in the infinite and im- 
measurable. They are the first step in the world 
of matter. Although these units are as much 
smaller than the electron as the electron is smaller 
than the cosmos, still they are subject to geometrical 
dimensions. Their size is as inconceivable to man 
as the size of the universe. Still they, as surely, 
have actual magnitude, and it is only the limit of 
man's means of mensuration and observation that 
prevents them from being measured. 

That is the first step in the production of what 
is ultimately to be known as matter. Each of these 
vortices is made according to the Formula for the 
units of that magnitude, according to the Divine 
Plan for them. 

The Formula then combines these vortices into 
little systems, thousands or millions of them to form 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 



the "elements" on the next grade of magnitude. 
Here the myriads of smaller vortices revolve about 
the Formula of that magnitude; thus, by their sys- 
tematic rotation, they form an individual entity, a 
functional unity. These are the things which 
scientists have worked with and which they have 
named "electrons." 

Thus it is that man, stopping at the electrons for 
want of physical apparatus for further investiga- 
tion, has missed the last two gradations, and con- 
sequently has not found the true interpretation of 
the facts which he has observed. It is intrinsically 
impossible for physical apparatus to perceive or 
explain the Ultimate Unities of Mind, Space, and 
Darkness. These revelations are possible only 
through perfect contact with Mind, through the 
Mental Communication which was described and 
explained earlier in this course. Man, before he 
had abused the liberty which was given him, had 
this perfect contact, and man today can return 
through the maze of human perversions to this real 
and conscious communion. Then he can under- 
stand the Laws of Nature, and the creations of 
Mind, and he is able to use that which he under- 
stands. 

To some it may seem almost incredible that 
from the union of two ultimate Substances have 
come all of the great diversity of materials now in 
existence. To the student of chemistry, however, 
this fact is not remarkable. He has but to follow 
the trail of the results of his own experiments, 
which have disclosed to him the actions of various 
known chemicals, their ability to combine in a 
variety of forms, to interact and form new com- 
pounds totally unlike the original chemicals. Then 
he can realize, at least, the possibility of the truth 
that all matter originated in two Substances, active 
in a far greater degree than anything manifested 
in the cruder forms with which he is familiar and 
charged with the power of Mind which is the 



VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 1 3 



Primeval, the Supreme, the Parental, Energy, 
without which there is no activity. 

We can best illustrate the action of Mind, Space 
and Darkness by comparison with some of the 
chemical elements which are familiar to everyone; 
for instance, hydrogen, and oxygen, which are both 
described as "colorless, odorless, tasteless gases," 
when united (through the agency of energy in 
some form) according to the formula H 2 make 
water, a liquid. The same elements united ac- 
cording to the formula H 2 2 produce peroxide of 
hydrogen. Except in appearance there is little 
similarity between water and peroxide of hydro- 
gen ; in taste there is a marked difference, in chem- 
ical action they are unlike ; either could never take 
the place of the other, yet neither contains one ele- 
ment which does not exist in the other. The only 
difference in composition consists in the proportion 
of the atoms of the two elements. In water, two 
atoms of hydrogen are combined with one of oxy- 
gen. In peroxide of hydrogen, two atoms of hy- 
drogen are combined with two atoms of oxygen. 
Even atoms of oxygen alone combined in groups 
of three, form a gas which is sufficiently distinctive 
to be recognized as ozone rather than oxygen. 

In many other chemicals we find evidences of 
this same law. Iron shows the property of com- 
bining in two proportions, forming the basic oxides 
FeO and Fe 2 3 , and two complete sets of salts 
which, while containing exactly the same elements, 
although in different proportions, display widely 
different properties. Copper, mercury, and various 
other metals have this same property. There are 
but a few more than seventy elements recognized 
by science. From these, we know, come practically 
all of the infinite variety of matter with which we 
are familiar upon this plane. 

When we realize that so-called elements are not 
in reality elementary, but by the action of Mind 
the most potent form of Energy may be decom- 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

posed into more elemental form, it is not difficult 
to comprehend the origin of all matter in the tTvo 
true elements, Space and Darkness. 

We must remember that properties such as ac- 
tivity, variation in valency, etc., which are distin- 
guishable in the comparatively crude chemicals 
with which we can experiment, are immensely in- 
tensified in the elementary forms, 

To illustrate the beginning of material chemicals, 
let us suppose that through the Energy of Mind one 
volume of Space uniting with one volume of Dark- 
ness forms a compound thus: Sp+D=SpD. One 
volume of Space uniting with two volumes of 
Darkness forms another compound: Sp+2D= 
SpD 2 . Then SpD+SpD2=Sp 2 D 3 ; Sp 2 D 3 +D= 
Sp 2 D 4 ; Sp 2 D 4 +SpD 2 =Sp 3 D 6 , and so on ad in- 
finitum. 

Man, in his experimentation, finds the compound 
Sp 3 D 6 , and because he cannot, through any agency 
at his command decompose it further, he labels it 
an element and calls it oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, 
or any one of the seventy or more elements which 
he has discovered. 

From this stage man can observe the interaction 
of the chemicals and follow their changes and he 
can even, in a measure, control their actions. Be- 
yond this plane he cannot yet penetrate except 
through a mental discernment made possible only 
by perfect contact with Mind. 

Matter cannot be made by material means, life 
cannot come from the unliving. The things which 
are made may say to the Maker : "Why hast thou 
made us thus?" but they cannot undo that which 
has been done. The true and natural way in which 
man can and should control matter is through con- 
tact and co-operation with Mind, through the same 
means which Jesus of Nazareth used when he con- 
trolled the winds and the waves, turned water into 



VITAL ENERGY— THE ULTIMATE UNITS 15 

wine, cleansed lepers, multiplied the loaves and 
fishes, and walked upon the water. 

As before stated, perfect Natural Man is in 
absolute contact with Mind, and all of his activi- 
ties are in perfect accord with the Divine Plan. 
Thus he is functioning in accord with Nature, re- 
ceiving all things that are necessary for his supplies, 
his maintenance, the repair and upkeep of his 
body. When a natural food is taken into the body 
there is a corresponding flow of electrons which 
enter the body through the organs of respiration. 
Any thing that is lacking in the food or that is 
needed for the assimilation of the food is supplied 
by this stream of electrons. This flow ceases when 
man loses his contact with Mind — when he be- 
comes mortal. 

Hie Real Man thus obtains in a finer state every 
necessary formula and chemical, and he can even 
partake in safety of the hybrid fruits, unaffected 
by their poisons. 

The etheric chemicals enter the lungs, are liqui- 
fied by the pneumogastric nerve, and are carried 
in the blood stream to that part of the body for 
which they are intended. 



SPECIAL NOTICE 

Students are requested to read each lecture five 
times before beginning the study of the succeeding 
lesson. 



Copyright, 1919 
by 
Wilma Alice Cosper 
All Rights Reserved 



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HEALING 




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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

A 
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

BY 
REV. WILBERT LEROY COSPER, D. D., C. P. 

BISHOP OF THE 
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

AUTHOR OF 
"NATURE'S WAY" "HYMNS OF LIFE" 




MOTHERHOOD 

LESSON NUMBER 

NINE 

CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE 

541-543-545 PACIFIC BUILDING 
SAN FRANCISCO 



Copyright, 1919 

by 

Wilma Alice Cosper 

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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man. 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration. 

III The Mist. 

IV The Hood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



MOTHERHOOD 

/^■•^HE welfare and happiness of generations 
i] to come depends primarily upon the educa- 
^US tion of those who are to become mothers — 
education not along lines of material physical 
learning, but the acquisition of a spiritual under- 
standing which will remove all of the fear and 
dread which too often accompanies the thought of 
motherhood. There is no other factor, political, 
social, financial, or educational, which will aid so 
surely or so immediately in the repopulating of the 
nations so grievously depleted by the ravages of 
war, as the assurance imparted and demonstrated 
to all women that they may bear children without 
pain and suffering. The removal of all fear from 
prospective motherhood would be more effective 
even than a sense of duty to country or race for 
it would overcome the reluctance which in thou- 
sands of cases prevents women from accepting 
their rightful share of the responsibilities of the 
world. 

To remove the misapprehension and fear which 
in the past has attended maternity, it is necessary 
to understand the entire process which begins in 
the very beginning of materiality and at its com- 
pletion brings forth upon this plane an infant capa- 
ble of marvelous development and possessed of 
potentialities as yet unmeasured. 

Through a belief in reincarnation many have 
reached the conclusion that individuals in the spirit 
world, incarnate through mothers of their own 
choosing. A very little reasoning belies this idea, 
for we find large families of children quite fre- 
quently among the most unattractive and unde- 
sirable mothers. Surely no one would consciously 
choose for his mother one who neglects and mis- 
treats her children. Yet we find this type quite as 
prolific as the class of women who may be devoted, 
capable and in every sense desirable mothers. 



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Surely if this condition of conscious choice were 
possible to all individuals entering upon this life, 
the childless woman would without exception be 
one to be shunned for she must either have been 
rejected by all of the unborn or have herself refused 
to accept the charges committed to her keeping. 
This belief is wholly incongruous in the face of 
existing conditions. 

The general assumption that the child in the 
embryonic state is nourished and formed wholly 
from the mother's blood, which in turn is formed 
from the food she eats, is equally erroneous. Pros- 
pective mothers are warned that they must eat 
certain amounts of certain varieties of food in order 
that the child may be correctly supplied with the 
substances necessary to its development. The ad- 
visors fail to note the fact that a cow, whose diet 
is confined entirely to grass, bears young as perfect 
as those of any species subsisting upon a greatly 
varied diet. It may be said that grass is the na- 
tural food for the cow. We have no thought of 
prescribing such diet for the human mother. This, 
however, does not alter the fact that in the flesh 
of the calf we find as many different chemicals as 
in that of the baby whose mother's diet has been 
chosen according to the most approved system. 
"Man does not live by bread alone." Nor is the 
infant body formed alone by bread, meat, milk, 
or other recognized foods. 

Let us penetrate to the depths of the very be- 
ginning of individual life that we may be able to 
teach intelligently the truths which will place ma- 
ternity upon a new and infinitely more attractive 
basis. 

We have shown in previous lectures how Mind 
controls Darkness and Space in the first appear- 
ance of materiality. Mind produces a thought 
and that thought becomes a thing. Consider the 
little grains of wheat. Within that tiny seed is 
enclosed every necessity for the development and 
maturity of the plant, and for the production of 



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the ripened grain. But from what source came 
the elements which are employed to produce the 
matured wheat? From the soil and the water? Par- 
tially, no doubt, yet neither the soil nor the water 
show evidences of the coloring, the flavor, the dis- 
tinctive characteristics of the wheat. A chemical 
analysis of the earth and the water which come in 
contact with the plant fails to reveal all of the 
chemicals which are found in the wheat. Obviously 
then there are factors apart from these which are 
concerned in its production. There is a certain 
potentiality which we find in every grain of wheat 
and in nothing else in the world, which at all times 
and in all places produces wheat. Never by any 
chance do we find the grain of wheat producing 
an apple tree or a grape vine. What is this dis- 
tinctive property of each creation which enables it 
to reproduce its own likeness throughout the cen- 
turies? It is the effect of the formula, created in 
thought by Mind and governing the compound of 
Darkness and Space which is the beginning of each 
individual manifestation. 

We cannot detect, either in earth, air, or water, 
all of the chemicals which constitute the wheat, 
because these originate in Darkness and Space in 
a form so ethereal, so minute, and so intangible 
as to be entirely beyond the realm of physical 
recognition of experimentation. 

The Soul within the seed, the magnetic attrac- 
tion resulting from the action of Spirit upon matter, 
attracts to the seed whatever intelligence is neces- 
sary according to the Divine Formula for the com- 
pletion of the product intended. It attracts like- 
wise whatever chemical mixtures or compounds 
are required for the mature plant and for the for- 
mation of scores of new seeds, all containing the 
same latent power which in due season repeats the 
process that produced the parent plant. 

Certain conditions which are a part of the re- 
quirements of the Divine Formula for wheat may 



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be withheld by the interposition of man or by other 
unnatural means. These are such as the necessity 
for heat, light, and moisture. The loss of any of 
these requisites prevents the natural development 
of the plant. 

In the development of the individual human 
being we find a parallel to the growth of the indi- 
vidual plant. The differences are due to the dif- 
ferences in the original Formulas. 

Mind created the formulas which produced the 
spermatozoum and the ovum, the first traces of the 
process which are perceptible to man and the limit 
of physical experimentation at the present time. 

By the vibratory forces of the ether and in con- 
formity to the Divine Plan for replenishing the 
earth, the ovum is attracted to the female body 
which will afterward become the mother of the 
new individual. The spermatozoum is carried to 
the male and all unconsciously, the man and 
woman take into their bodies by inhalation, these 
minute, invisible, yet complex and wonderful or- 
ganisms. 

By the act of coition the spermatozoum and the 
ovum are united in the uterus of the future mother 
and together they form the seed which has the 
power to attract from the finer ethers the substances 
and intelligence which constitute a human being, 
just as the grain of wheat attracted the essentials 
to its complete expression. Sealed within the uterus 
in contact with the warmth and moisture of the 
human body, together with the light of Divine In- 
telligence, the tiny seed grows and changes until 
it has attained the familiar form of the infant body. 

The union of the male and the female procrea- 
tive elements forms the magnet which attracts from 
the Ethers the compounds of Darkness and Space 
which build the little body according to the com- 
plex Formula created by the Divine Intelligence. 
These etheric chemicals attracted by the soul of 
the unborn child, are inhaled by the mother, just 
as she has previously inhaled the ovum from which 



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the embryo has grown. In the lungs they enter 
the mother's blood and are carried through the um- 
bilical cord to the child. 

Enclosed in the electron with every particle of 
etheric chemical is the thought formula which di- 
rects and controls its action, and propelled by 
Spirit, the expression of Divine Energy, each tiny 
electron finds its own particular place in the build- 
ing of the intricate mechanism of the little body. 
The child is thus formed directly by the power of 
the Divine Mind, from the delicate substances of 
the finer ethers. The mother's blood is but the 
channel for the flow of this Divine Activity. What 
the mother eats has little to do with the chemicals 
of the child's body. What the mother thinks, 
however, can affect both the child's mental and 
physical development. The little brain in the pro- 
cess of formation is most delicate and sensitive to 
thought. A thought of fear in the mother's mind 
that something which she has eaten or something 
that she has done may injure the child, will have 
the effect of paralyzing to a degree the functioning 
of the body. Thus the results which the mother 
fears do sometimes follow, yet she does not realize 
that the injury is the result of her fear rather than 
of the act which caused the fear. 

The mother's belief, for instance, in the stories so 
prevalent among other mothers of how various 
conditions "always" cause colic in babies may so 
interfere with the action of Divine Thought in the 
building of the little organs that the false mental 
picture of an imperfect digestion is forced upon the 
little brain and the perfect etheric chemicals which 
enter its body are thus wrongly mixed through the 
perversion of the thought which the Divine Intelli- 
gence has supplied with them. The child's diges- 
tive organs are weak and imperfect and after birth 
the child manifests the ailments which the mother 
had anticipated, confirming her belief that many 
things (in reality perfectly harmless) can cause 
colic. 



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Much that is called heredity originates thus in 
the prenatal influence of the mother's fears and 
false teachings. It is true that the results are no 
less disastrous than if germs of disease transmitted 
through the parental blood were the real cause of 
the afflictions. The knowledge, however, that 
false thoughts rather than diseased organs are re- 
sponsible for the ailments makes the remedy much 
simpler and the prevention easy. For if the mother 
actually knew that it was only her wrong beliefs 
which could injure her child, all cause for alarm 
would then be removed and fear would cease to 
exist. The child would then be free to receive the 
pure intelligence and unadulterated chemicals of 
the Divine Creation. 

The whole duty of the prospective mother then 
resolves itself into a negative one, merely to refrain 
from interfering with the perfect natural develop- 
ment of the child by thoughts of ailments and im- 
perfections. 

This course is far less simple than it would ap- 
pear at first thought. For the woman reared and 
educated in the belief of unavoidable ills, and of 
the weaknesses of the flesh, it is difficult indeed to 
erase these beliefs from the brain. The mere re- 
petition and forcd assertion of a knowledge of per- 
fection is utterly useless. Unless she can actually 
penetrate the falsehoods of prevalent errors and 
see their inconsistency and absurdities, she cannot 
hope to correct her distorted mental vision. Pro- 
testations of faith or knowledge however constant, 
will not avail. When she once sees the truth the 
necessity and incentive for affirmation disappears. 

The ideal motherhood is a state of serene and 
conscious responsibility and efficiency. It can exist 
only when the mother understands the Divine Laws 
which have produced her child, understands them 
at least to the extent that she is able to keep herself 
and her offspring in harmony with them. If she 
can do this she has the assurance of the health and 



MOTHERHOOD II 

happiness of her children. To the true mother that 
assurance is of more value than all else. 

The prevalence of mortal beliefs today makes 
the rearing of spiritual children a momentous task. 
To keep them uncontaminated requires the moth- 
er's constant thought and care. So many wrong 
practices have become an accepted part of the 
treatment of children that it is not surprising that 
so few individuals are able to attain maturity with 
even a semblance of the spiritual understanding 
which was theirs by right of birth. 

Deception and falsehood play a large part in 
the relation of many parents to their children. If 
the child asks for something which they do not wish 
to give him, they tell him that it is "all gone" or 
that it will "hurt the baby." The child usually 
recognizes the untruth and soon loses his confidence 
in the parent's veracity. A direct refusal of the 
child's request is more honorable and far less in- 
jurious to his ideals. Parents who have themselves 
taught these first lessons in falsehood often spend an 
old age in sorrow over the waywardness and de- 
ception of their children. A truthful answer can 
always be given to the child's questions. A sin- 
cere effort should always be made to express the 
truth in terms which he can understand. If, how- 
ever, the explanation is entirely beyond the child's 
power of comprehension, he may not understand 
the meaning of your words but he will, neverthe- 
less, recognize your sincerity, and your acknowl- 
edgement of his intelligence will strengthen the 
child's self-respect, one of the fundamental quali- 
ties of character so often permanently crushed by 
thoughtless parents. No one should ever be per- 
mitted to ridicule or to humiliate a child. When 
a child has done anything which necessitates re- 
proof, the correction should be made firmly, but 
always with an attitude which presupposes the 
good intention of the child and which does not force 
upon the sensitive mind a sense of inferiority and 
degradation. Much has been said of the duty of 



12 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

a child toward its parents. Much has been left 
unsaid of the parents' duty toward the child. The 
respect of the child for its mother should be 
equalled by the respect of the mother for the child. 
Love and consideration if genuine should be mu- 
tual and instinctive. 

The indignities heaped upon a little child in a 
mistaken idea of discipline will often cripple ini- 
tiative and lessen self-confidence to such an extent 
that the individual of inherent talent and ability 
and creative power is reduced to a mere unthinking 
machine which obeys unquestioningly the com- 
mands of the parents and in later life those of em- 
ployers or of husband or wife, but who must al- 
ways cower and shrink and follow, deprived for 
life of the God-given dominion, and right to in- 
dividual choice. 

Courage, self-reliance, initiative, all are essen- 
tial to a successful life and must be cultivated in 
the child if he is ever to reach the fulfillment of his 
possibilities. These characteristics must be en- 
couraged in the infant before he is old enough to 
creep or even to sit alone. It is always easier to 
help the baby to accomplish the attempted feats 
than to watch it struggle and strive to do some- 
thing to its untrained muscles almost impossible. 
These attempts to help the baby, however, are 
usually an injustice to the child and often do well- 
nigh irreparable damage to its physical or mental 
capacity. A child who is never helped or coaxed 
to sit erect or to stand or walk, will accomplish all 
of these exploits at the time and in the manner in 
which Nature intended. The child who is care- 
fully supported in his first steps will never gain the 
confidence and poise, the nice co-operation of brain 
and muscle which results from a normal, spon- 
taneous development. 

The child should be given much freedom and 
quiet and should never be disturbed without rea- 
son. If he is to grow up as a spiritual being he 
must be allowed to assimilate and reproduce the 



MOTHERHOOD 13 

Divine Intelligence which he, himself, receives. If 
parents or friends persist in constantly forcing their 
ideas upon him they will exclude the constructive 
spiritual thought which alone can determine what 
is for his welfare. The inevitable result of such 
substitution is to pervert the little brain and render 
it mortal. 

When the baby begins to talk he should not be 
urged to say certain words. If he is permitted to 
follow natural impulses he will say the things which 
properly exercise the rapidly developing organs 
and which are in harmony with the thought which 
belongs to that period. The parents' choice of easy 
or clever words may throw the child's mental 
world into confusion and materially interfere with 
his progress. 

The parents' pride in the child's progress is 
natural and commendable, but they should be con- 
tent always with true progress which makes a foun- 
dation for future accomplishment rather than to 
incite spasmodic achievements which will incui 
future disappointment and inefficiency. The baby 
who deliberately, if laboriously, rises to his feet, 
stands alone, and sits down without panic or dis- 
aster, has gained something of inestimable value, 
whereas the child who is placed on his feet by 
some admirer and persuaded to take a few uncer- 
tain and precipitate steps only to fall into some one 
else's outstretched arms, has been grievously handi- 
capped in his chances for self mastery and inde- 
pendence. 

The parent should, of course, protect the child 
from danger of injury, but this should be done un- 
obtrusively and without allowing the child to feel 
that he is being shielded. A child will receive 
fewer falls and will be in much less danger if he 
learns at the very beginning of his experiments to 
fall adroitly rather than to expect someone to be al- 
ways at hand to save him from falling. 

An undesirable characteristic that is thought- 
lessly cultivated by many parents is the tendency 



14 SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

to blame someone or something else for one's own 
errors. This quality in an adult is never admired 
and is usually displeasing, yet frequently the seed 
has been sown in the infant brain by a mistaken at- 
tempt at comforting the child. The baby stumbles 
and bumps his head on a chair, the mother takes 
him in her arms, displays much agitation over the 
occurrence and tells him that it was "a naughty, 
naughty chair." Perhaps the bump was a very 
slight one which would have passed almost unno- 
ticed if the mother had shown no alarm and had 
made a smiling comment but instead she has in- 
stilled a feeling of animosity for an object which 
she knows was in no way culpable $nd she has 
introduced the sentiment which in later years will 
find expression in the weak self-justification, "It 
wasn't my fault," or "I never had a chance." 

Constant warnings are unnecessary and debil- 
itating. When the child is told repeatedly that he 
will fall or that he will get hurt there are stamped 
upon the sensitive brain pictures of disaster which 
will manifest sooner or later in misfortune. The 
suggestion of a different occupation or the intro- 
duction of another plaything will more effectively 
avert the danger and will make a wholesome con- 
structive mental image instead of a demoralizing 
fear. 

The redemption of the race, the restoration of 
the Real Man depends in greatest measure upon 
the new generation. Let us, therefore, as Christian 
Philosophers, make our first and highest responsi- 
bility, as in truth our greatest privilege, the protec- 
tion and resurrection of the little ones who are com- 
mitted to our care. 



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SCIENTIFIC HEALING 

A 

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 

BY 
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Copyright, 1919 

by 

Wilma Alice Cosper 

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THE LESSONS 

I Divine Man and Carnal Man, 

II The Genuine and the Adulteration 

III The Mist. 

IV The Hood, Part I. 
V The Flood, Part II. 

VI Man Versus Nature. 

VII The Fall of Man. 

VIII Vital Energy. The Ultimate Units. 

IX Motherhood. 

X Healing. 



HEALING 

3N the study of this course of lectures, some 
may be surprised to find little in regard to 
healing. In this last lecture therefore we 
must impress upon the student the fact that there 
is little to be written or to be learned about healing. 
The power to heal is but one of the natural results 
of spiritual understanding. If you have acquired a 
clear comprehension of the truths expounded in the 
preceding lectures and in the text book "Nature's 
Way," you have, without further teaching, the 
power to heal. If you are not fully conscious of 
this power, the way may be opened more clearly 
by the exposure of some of the misunderstandings 
which are most frequently provocative of doubt or 
failure. 

If any disease which comes under the observa- 
tion of a Christian Philosopher can produce in him 
a sense of repulsion or loathing, his power to heal 
that disease is thereby lessened. Unless by the ac- 
quirement of a more complete knowledge, he can 
lose this aversion, there is little probability of suc- 
cessful treatment of the case. 

To Jesus, the lepers whom He healed were not 
"loathsome things," else He could not have gath- 
ered them into the light of spiritual knowledge 
where, nourished by the etheric supplies, their 
wasted bodies were restored to the normal state. 

St. Paul gives expression to the truth which en- 
abled Jesus to heal the lepers. In Rom. 14:14, 
he says: "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord 
Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but 
to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to 
him it is unclean." 

And again in the 20th verse of the same chapter 
he says: "All things indeed are pure; but it is evil 
for that man who eateth with offense." 



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"There is nothing unclean of itself!" For many 
persons this fact is difficult of comprehension. One 
can conjure in a moment's thought the memory of 
innumerable objects seemingly unclean. This fact, 
however, is the consequence of a narrow and per- 
sonal point of view. The unbiased consideration 
of this problem necessitates a breadth of vision so 
great as to be in reality universal. 

There are many things unclean according to 
man's tastes, sensibilities and education, which to 
other of God's creatures are the acme of desir- 
ability. Then the uncleanness is not the creation 
of God but is due solely to man's selfish viewpoint. 
For passing judgment upon all things, he has made 
his standard the question, "Is it pleasing to me?" 
Many of his decisions would be instantly reserved 
were he to ask instead, "Is it pleasing to the Intel- 
ligence which created all things?" 

For instance: a man walks upon the sea shore 
and suddenly comes upon quantities of decaying 
fish. The odor and the appearance of the decom- 
posing material is most offensive to him. He would 
undoubtedly designate the condition as "unclean," 
yet he sees a flock of sea gulls feasting upon the 
fish with every evidence of relish. 

The same intelligence which created man, cre- 
ated the sea gull and prepared a means of furnish- 
ing suitable food for it. The power gave to man 
and to the gull appetites for different kinds of food 
in order that the one creation might subsist in a cer- 
tain sphere and the other in a totally distinct pro- 
vince — each fulfilling a specific purpose in the plan 
of the universe. 

The odor of decomposing matter, although dis- 
tasteful to man is not "unclean of itself." To other 
of God's creations it is pleasing, therefore, to God 
it is a necessary and desirable condition. 

When life has been withdrawn from any indi- 
vidual creature or plant, that individual can pro- 



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gress no farther in the existing form, so to permit 
of the constructive use of the living atoms and elec- 
trons which have made up its mass, the body must 
disintegrate. By so doing it liberates the impris- 
oned elements which enter upon a broader field of 
activity. Is this process pernicious or unclean? 
Viewed in the light of universal welfare, it is bene- 
ficent and purifying. 

Many varieties of shell fish which man considers 
edible and appetizing, feed upon this same decay- 
ing flesh and it goes to build up their tissues which 
are in turn eaten by man. Thus he welcomes in a 
different state the same materials which under 
other conditions were loathsome. 

The decomposing carcass of an animal, disgust- 
ing to human sensibilities, affords the chosen food 
of the vulture and other scavengers. The blow- 
fly, in man's judgment a nuisance, is one of the 
efficient and helpful agents in the dissolution of 
material which can attain new usefulness only by 
returning to the original chemical elements. To 
these creatures, subsisting upon the foods which 
nature has suited to their requirements, there are 
no ill effects attendant upon the consumption of 
"tainted meat." To man the results of the same 
food would be very different. Why? Because 
the Creator has given to each creation its own food 
supply. Yet the very fact that a thing is "good" 
to any one of God's creations, precludes the possi- 
bility of judging it "unclean of itself." 

Virgin soil will often produce a meager crop of 
vegetables. The same soil enriched by manure 
will bear an abundant harvest. We call the fer- 
tilizer filth, yet the vegetables we consider pure and 
clean. 

To successfully treat disease, the practitioner 
must arrive at a realization of the truth that "noth- 
ing is unclean of itself." He must be so firm in this 
knowledge, that decomposition of tissues such as 



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the excretions from tubercular or cancerous bodies 
cannot arouse fear or a horror of the disease or 
any doubt as to the simplicity with which the 
infected flesh may be cleansed and purified by the 
application of natural laws. When a healer has 
risen above all horror of disease in any form and 
has lost all fear of infection or contagion, his heal- 
ing power becomes superlative. 

Every chemical element which is excreted from 
the body of a tubercular patient has previously 
been taken into the body in another form. And 
as these chemicals enter either as food or upon the 
breath, there is nothing about them suggestive of 
uncleanness or danger. Often the pure spiritual 
substances enter the body as perfect chemicals 
combined according to Divine Formulas but 
through fear of contagious disease or because of 
some other false teaching the brain of the indi- 
vidual may fail to rcognize and interpret the Di- 
vine Formula for their proper combination and 
natural use. Fearing tuberculosis or dwelling upon 
a detailed picture of its ravages upon some other 
body, the brain is more likely to misinterpret the 
Divine Formula and through its very fear of the 
disease cause the body to put the chemicals to- 
gether in a way that produces tuberculosis or some 
condition resembling it. 

Another person in the same household, eating 
the same food and following the same routine of 
life may take into his body the very same chemi- 
cals, but with a brain free from fear and morbid 
pictures; his body functions normally, the chem- 
icals are used according to the Divine Formula 
and the body shows every evidence of health and 
normal development. 

It has been shown previously that everything in 
the physical state originated in a certain mixture 
of Space and Darkness and every material, no mat- 
ter what its appearance or effect can be resolved 
by the power of Mind into these two primary Sub- 



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stances. There is, therefore, "nothing unclean of 
itself." The only fault or error lies in the wrong 
mixture of elements which when rightly used pro- 
duce perfect conditions. Knowing this fact, the 
practitioner of mental therapeutics should see in the 
symptoms of any disease no cause for horror or fear 
but merely the need of a mental readjustment 
which can restore the complete and natural func- 
tioning of the different organs and remove all un- 
desirable conditions. 

Another detriment to successful healing is very 
closely allied to aversion for the manifestations of 
disease. This is the fear of death. If the thought 
of death either of himself or of a patient can pro- 
duce a mental panic in the practitioner, he is not 
yet qualified as a master of his work. What we 
call death, the withdrawal of the spirit from the 
body, is a perfectly natural and normal condition. 
It does not, however, to the spiritual man, imply 
illness or pain. We see the grass grow and die; 
each season's flowers bloom and wither ; the leaves 
bud on the trees, grow into a luxurious mantle and 
in the autumn fall to the ground and decay; yet 
none of these phenomena cause sorrow or a sense 
of loss. The birth, development and death of the 
human body is governed by the same natural laws 
which control the grass and flowers and trees. The 
death of the body after it has fulfilled its purpose 
upon this plane is no more tragic or deplorable 
than the falling of the autumn leaves. When the 
leaves have decomposed and returned to their na- 
tural elements, those elements are as truly alive as 
they were when newly created; what then is 
death? Merely one transitory stage of life, no 
more to be feared or avoided than any other na- 
tural event of life. The death to be shunned is not 
this transition, but the "death" which reigned 
"from Adam to Moses," the deadening of the 
Spiritual Understanding. This death is synony- 
mous with mortality, error and sin. 



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When the student has attained to the clear spir- 
itual vision which banishes all dread of disease and 
fear of death, he will not hesitate to undertake 
any case of healing. 

The man who has a true conception of natural 
law will never presume that he can interfere with 
the Divine Plan or that he can accomplish results 
that are not in harmony with the laws of Nature, 
for however great the power of a spiritual man, 
that power is derived from and is subservient to 
the power of Mind, hence no man can ever usurp 
the power of Mind. 

When the season comes for the grass to wither, 
no man can keep it green ; when a man or a woman 
has accomplished his or her mission upon this plane, 
no healer, however powerful, can force the spirit 
to remain in the body. For this fact we should 
be truly thankful and no conscientious, sincere fol- 
lower of the truth would desire to usurp the Divine 
Privilege of decision as to when, for the universal 
good, a man shall step from this limited physical 
existence into a state of broader experience and 
higher sensibilities. No intelligent practitioner will 
pretend to the power of postponing this transition 
beyond the natural season, but without exceeding 
his authority he may assert that it is his privilege 
to remove from this period of life the suffering and 
the fear and to clothe it with its rightful aspect of 
beneficence and repose. 

The understanding of the Divine Law, is the 
one essential to the power to heal all unnatural and 
abnormal conditions. The man or woman who 
has been resurrected into a spiritual life through 
the acquirement of Divine Truth does not need to 
be taught to heal. Such a one carries in his very 
presence the healing which comes from the purify- 
ing, perfecting flow of spiritual thought constantly 
received and assimilated. He may not even be 
conscious of this power, yet it will affect those with 
whom he associates. Just as one who carries a 



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light into a dark room dispels the darkness: al- 
though the consciousness of this fact may not im- 
press him. His whole thought at the moment may 
be upon another purpose, such as finding a book, 
or closing a window, yet he cannot enter the room 
without turning the gloom into brightness. He 
need not deny the darkness or affirm the light, the 
result is automatic. The practitioner should never 
attempt to force certain thoughts. It is what a 
man is, not what he things that does the work. We 
often find in insane asylums, persons who believe 
that they are Napoleon or other famous characters, 
yet their firm conviction and their constant affirma- 
tions as to their identity do not affect the real facts 
or impress others who have more reliable sources of 
information. The repetition of such statements as 
"I am not sick," "There is no such thing as pain," 
"I know that in reality I am well," are as futile as 
the claims of the deluded "Napoleon." A con- 
sciousness of health or well-being could never give 
rise to such assertions, therefore they are actual 
evidence of the existence of the very conditions 
which they seek to deny. 

Much valuable energy is spent in unnecessary 
resistance and struggling to "throw off" undesir- 
able manifestations. The simple, quiet acceptance 
of the Divine flow of spiritual thought obviates all 
this nerve-straining effort, for the inflow of light 
dissipates the darkness as naturally as the rising 
sun dispels the night. 

The cultivation of personality and individuality 
is so much an object, in most systems of mental 
training, that it sometimes defeats the desired aim. 
Man must, at least at times, eliminate the idea of 
self and transcend the limits of personality in or- 
der to realize the source and the mode of opera- 
tion of the Divine Forces. He must function, not 
as an independent entity, but as an inseparable 
portion of Divine Intelligence, if he would come in 
contact with true knowledge. He must not at- 



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tempt to force upon the Divine Powers the fulfill- 
ment of any person's selfish desires. Man has 
not the right to dictate to God or to Nature, his 
authority and his duty alike are consummated 
when he enters into perfect harmony with the one 
Intelligence, to the end that, he becomes the trans- 
mitter of whatever that Intelligence sees fit to con- 
vey. Any effort further than this, any attempt to 
advise or enlighten the Divine Intelligence is merely 
an evidence of the mist of ignorance and it serves 
only as a stumbling block in the pathway of health, 
happiness, and prosperity. Let no man feel that 
this fact imposes a limit upon his power to heal or 
upon his usefulness to humanity, for whatever is 
beneficial or desirable for humanity is included in 
the gift of God to His children. Whatever is good 
we may freely promise to every suppliant, but we 
must always leave to the Divine Intelligence the 
prerogative in the distinction between the desires 
of ignorance or mortality and the requirements of 
spiritual man. The latter are given freely, the for- 
mer must be withheld if we consider the real wel- 
fare of the misguided person. We would not be 
kind to a child if we lifted it that it might reach a 
dangerous weapon, although it might desire it 
greatly. Thus we would not wish even if such re- 
sults were possible, to help any man to attain a 
purpose which seems to him desirable, but which 
would eventually increase his misfortune. 

The cultivation of the ego has been much ad- 
vocated. To obliterate the thought of the "ego," 
"I am," and to dwell upon and exalt the "sumus," 
"we are," would be conducive of far more benefit 
to the world and likewise to the individual. This 
thought does not end with the inclusion in one con- 
sciousness of all mankind, it means the indivisible 
unity of all intellects, all forces, all substance and 
all intelligence. As there is but one God, there is 
but one unit in the universe. There is no man so 
highly developed, so self-sufficient, so intelligent 



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that he can exist for one second apart from the 
intelligence and the energy which he derives from 
the one Mind. Man, therefore, or mankind are 
not units, they are but members of the one body 
and to attain their highest degree of efficiency and 
usefulness, each one must accept his rightful place 
in the Divine System. He must perform willingly 
whatever duties are imposed upon him by the office 
which he was created to fulfill. 

Thus when another, stifled by the mist of igno- 
rance comes to you gasping for breath and begs 
your assistance, you have nothing to do but to say 
in the words of the greatest Master of the ages: 
"Father, thy will be done," and because the pa- 
tient has come to the light and has come with his 
brain in an attitude of reception and submission, his 
heart is set in vibration in harmony with your own, 
and as the misguided brain accepts the dictates of 
the heart, the whole body vibrates with Divine 
Activity. Every organ is aroused from its lethargy 
and responds to the energy of Mind. Discord is 
thus eliminated and perfect natural action is re- 
stored. 

The only way to become an unobstructed chan- 
nel for Divine Thought, is by temporary oblitera- 
tion of all conscious thought. The cultivation of 
this practice has been explained in "Nature's 
Way," in the last paragraphs of Chapter VIII. 
When a patient appeals to you, a Christian Phil- 
osopher, you should employ no treatment save this : 
enter for a moment into concentration by the ob- 
literation of physical thought thus offering yourself 
as an agent of Divine Thought, a phonograph, as 
it were upon which the Divine Intelligence may 
place the record which it wishes to communicate 
to the patient. By his voluntary contact with your 
consciousness he has then come in contact with the 
Mind which possesses omnipotent properties of 
healing and purity. 



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We can but repeat to all who ask, "What must 
I do to heal?" "You must do nothing, but you 
must understand much." 

FINIS. 



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